It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
If you don’t want war, then you had better be an advocate for diplomacy with muscle.
There’s nothing good that comes out of war. It’s simply hell on earth, and people survive, and people don’t.
The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, ‘if only’.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
I didn’t see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I’m still struggling with it, 40 years later.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
I think ‘Make love, not war’ might be the most profound statement that’s ever been made.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
