War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War settles nothing.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

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

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Law is always better than war.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

War is the province of danger.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

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

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.