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.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis not yours to think and reason why, but to do and die,' like the hundred thousand others doomed like yourself. War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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