Quotes on Peace War

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.