Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

How many does it take to metamorphose wickedness into righteousness? One man must not kill. If he does, it is murder.... But a state or nation may kill as many as they please, and it is not murder. It is just, necessary, commendable, and right. Only get people enough to agree to it, and the butchery of myriads of human beings is perfectly innocent. But how many does it take?

Some day, one state will take up arms against another

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new blood. It is old, so very old.

Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!.

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

All interstate wars intensify aggression – maximize it … some wars are even more unjust than others. In other words, all government wars are unjust, although some governments have less unjust claims.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

So when I say we had been the cowards, yes, that's what I meant, we as a society. And that's everybody, including myself. I had been screaming about the drug war and this war and other wars. I should have been more on terrorism, too. So should you, so should everybody.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Artillery is the god of war.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.