Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

from 1953

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

War settles nothing.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

A naturalist and author, Abbey lived from 1927-1989.