“Come, let us wage a holy war!”
Jan Struther (1901–1953) British writer
BALLADE OF VANISHING WILD FLOWERS, BETSINDA DANCES AND OTHER POEMS
“Of course some wars may have been necessary or inevitable, but none was ever regarded as holy. For us, a holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. The Talmud says, "Talmidei hukhamim marbin shalom baolam" (It is the wise men who will bring about peace). Perhaps, because wise men remember best.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
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And victory will be bestowed on them."
[5, 57, 1]
Sunni Hadith
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
As quoted in "Is World Peace on the Horizon?", in The Watchtower (15 April 1991)
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 112.
Erik H. Erikson (1902–1994) American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
"The Problem of Ego Identity" (1956), published in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 4:56-121
“There were those in the South who would have been willing to wage war for its continuation”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
1920s, Freedom and its Obligations (1924)
Variant: There were those in the North who would have been willing to wage war for its abolition
Context: We meet again upon this hallowed ground to commemorate those who played their part in a particular outbreak of an age-old conflict. Many men have many theories about the struggle that went on from 1861 to 1865. Some say it had for its purpose the abolition of slavery. President Lincoln did not so consider it. There were those in the South who would have been willing to wage war for its continuation, but I very much doubt if the South as a whole could have been persuaded to take up arms for that purpose. There were those in the North who would have been willing to wage war for its abolition, but the North as a whole could not have been persuaded to take up arms for that purpose. President Lincoln made it perfectly clear that his effort was to save the Union — with slavery if he could save it that way; without slavery if he could save it that way. But he would save the Union. The South stood for the principle of the sovereignty of the States. The North stood for the principle of the supremacy of the Union.
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Address to Congress (1945)
