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More quotes to ponder for a weekend to remember those who’ve given their lives in war.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
~Ludwig von Mises

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
~Congressman Ron Paul

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
~Thomas Paine

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
~Ronald Reagan

Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
~Thomas Sowell

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
~Edward R. Murrow

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
~William Ellery Channing

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
~Marcus Aurelius

The dangerous patriot…drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.
~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood…War is hell.
~General William Tecumseh Sherman

Some men…in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties…
~Clearchus, in Xenophon

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~H. L. Mencken

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
~James Madison

Power is usurped from the people, first by implementing fear, then it is maintained by slandering as ‘unpatriotic’ those who refuse submission.
~Ramman Kenoun

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.
~Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk

The worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
~Ellen Key

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