No War Quotes

We believe that peace is at hand.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.

Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

War is the father of all things.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

I war not with the dead.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

If slaves will make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong.

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords!

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.