After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.

Man was/is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One who believes himself the master of others is nonetheless a greater slave than they.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...because it may well involve the whole world.

...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Human failure of communication and failed diplomacy between Nations should not yield the ultimate sacrifice; a life.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The coward threatens when he is safe.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak...

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

This quote is not from founding father John Adams, but from the Pulitzer Prize-winning modern composer and conductor of the same name (2001).

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

War is the cemetery of futures promised.

War is the tool of small-minded scoundrels who worship the death of others on the altar of their greed.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction...