Quotes on War

To hold a pen is to be at war.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.