I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

From an interview, 9/15/1900

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your governmant when it deserves it.

Be loyal to your country always, and to the government only when it deserves it.

Why, the Government is merely...a temporary servant...Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

from "The Mysterious Stranger," published 1910.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

What is more immoral than war?

Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

War is the greatest plague that can affect humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The chain reaction of evil--wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle...your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.