30 Anti-War Historical Quotes to Make Heavenly World

 Historical famous inspirational Anti-WAR quotes from great persons!

War settles nothing.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower 

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

~Eldridge Cleaver In war, truth is the first casualty. ~Aeschylus

                  Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

~Aesop

 History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

~Abba Eban

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 About the quote: from 1953

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

 About the quote: from 1953

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

About the quote: from 1953

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

~E. B. White

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

~Ecclesiastes 9:18

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

~Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

~Edmund Burke

As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters.

~Edward Gibbon

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

~Edward M. Kennedy

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~Voltaire

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. ~Voltaire

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

~Voltaire

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

~Voltairine de Clayre

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

~Walter Lippmann

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

~Walter Scott

The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. ~Winston Churchill

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

~W. L. George

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life...

~Woodrow Wilson