If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.
The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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