Jeffrey Dunn quotes

“I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.”
-- Jeffrey Dunn

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“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK

“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”