We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow

Every nation has its war party.

It is not the party of democracy.

It is the party of autocracy.

It seeks to dominate absolutely. Sen. Robert M. LaFollette

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

Justice Hugo Black

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and the power to choose should not be the privilege of wealth.

They are the birthright of every American.

George H. W. Bush

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Cato

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

You can only be free if I am free.

Clarence Darrow

…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.

Declaration of Independence

…But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

Declaration of Independence

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.

It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Justice William O. Douglas

Laws alone cannot secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be a spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

Patriotism means to stand by the country.

It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.

Theodore Roosevelt

War is fear cloaked in courage.

General William Westmoreland

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.

Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Georges Clemenceau

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Lynd

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Ulysses S. Grant

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Benjamin Franklin

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

Ken Gillespie

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Albert Camus

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

W. L. George

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

It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.

Theodore Roosevelt

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

General Douglas McArthur

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Winston Churchill

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Peace is constructed, not fought for.

Brent Davis

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Thucydides

We say that we care about the war, but we don’t even really know what we’re fighting for.

Scott Ritter

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

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

Voltaire

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

[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur.

Lydia Sicher

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Mark Twain

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Isaac Asimov

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

James Madison

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance.

Lydia Sicher

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.

Colonel James A. Donovan

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Where is the justice of political power if it...marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Kahlil Gibran

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Benito Juárez

War is not a word, it's an acronym for "Wasting Another's Resources." Ramman Kenoun

Let us become inspired by inherent beauty, and not impassioned by manufactured hate.

Nima Shirali, Middle Eastern Reconciliation Forum

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Thomas Jefferson

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Albert Camus

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

General Smedley Butler

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

General Smedley Butler

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Vincent Benét

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Ronald Reagan

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

William Penn

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our enemies...never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

George W. Bush

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Jimmy Carter

Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory.

Colonel James A. Donovan

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

Sen. Robert Taft

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. Mahatma Gandhi

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Voltaire

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

Frank Kent

Emphasis on military prowess is an indication of philosophical poverty.

Henk Middelraad

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with...

Gerard K. O’Neill

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

James Bryce

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop

All men having power ought to be mistrusted.

James Madison

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Barbara Jordan

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

Dorothy Thompson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Thomas Jefferson

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Noam Chomsky

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Sir Peter Ustinov