A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

Theodore Roosevelt

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Martin Luther

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Aaron Huey

In a general view, there are few conquests that repay the charge of making them, and mankind are pretty well convinced that it can never be worth their while to go to war for profit's sake. If they are made war upon, their country invaded, or their existence at stake, it is their duty to defend and preserve themselves, but in every other light, and from every other cause, is war inglorious and detestable.

Thomas Paine

We fought a war where the American people went to war to end the scourge of Nazism across this country and I'm very thankful for that because it's evil and its vile.

Madison Cawthorn

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Arthur Henderson

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

Stephen Grellet

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Mason Cooley

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

Don Young

We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening.

Ronald Reagan

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

Sharon Shinn

In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.