Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of empire-making, in order to...divert rising sentiment against domestic abuses.

Freedom is to understand, and to be unbounded by that freedom.

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.

Julia Howe was the "founder" of Mother's Day.

To declare that the end justifies the means, to declare that the government may commit crimes, would bring terrible retribution.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from error, it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Jackson (1892-1954) was a US Supreme Court Justice 1941-1954.

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?

Where is the justice of political power if it...marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

War: first, one hopes to win...in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Satirical writer and journalist. (1874–1936)

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I am not against all wars--just whichever is current.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired.

The war on terrorism is akin to the war on drugs…unwinable, unless you kill everyone…or address the root causes.

The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman.