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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

Why can't we all just get along?

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.