pacificist

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“It’s like needing pacificists to hand out guns.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Theoretically, even pacificists would probably admit that no one can respond as quickly and efficiently to a major U.S. disaster as the military.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the American Civil War many professed pacificists felt that for the abolition of slavery they must need take arms.

From Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by Hearnshaw, F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb)

We pacificists must only understand that unhappily the time was not yet sufficiently developed to establish peace by the peaceful way.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

The American miracle, FORD, By pacificists once was adored; Now their fury he raises By winning the praises Of England's great super-war-lord.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 by Various