The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Wars are inevitable... as long as we believe that wars are inevitable. The moment we don't believe it anymore it is not inevitable.

As long as we can talk with people, as long as one can keep the guns quiet, one has a chance.

[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault.

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

The more laws, the less justice.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

It takes more courage to get out of a war than it does to get into one.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities