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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death. -- Otto von Bismarck
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. -- George Orwell
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war... -- Curtis LeMay
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition. -- Ron Paul
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival. -- Noam Chomsky
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us. -- Moshe Sharett

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