Quotes

The Bush administration is rushing towards war in Iraq. The time to Speak-Out and Teach-In  is now. We the people can discuss this madness and work for Peace Aware.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or 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." Republican President THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country" ---Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country"
---Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

"Make Peace Happen" Quote for John and Yoko

"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. . . . No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." - James Madison, the principal architect of the U.S. Constitution, noted in 1795.

" Patriotism does not mean support for your government, Patriotism means support for your country." Mark Twain

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. this world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"....a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles...is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free"  - Ben Franklin

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind" - John F. Kennedy

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." - Abraham Lincoln

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

"I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints..." (Psalms 85:8). 

"If your enemies are hungry, feed them." Romans 12:20

Former president Nelson Mandela said on Jan 30 2003 the United States was preparing to go to war because "George Bush wants to get hold of the Iraqi oil" - Johannesburg at the three-day International Women's Forum

We are to seek to live at peace with all persons (Romans 1218). "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 59).

"Peacemaking" is an action word, implying that the Christian' is to be busy making peace in this world.