The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

Morality is contraband in war.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with stone clubs.

In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the actions of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war and not a game. Otherwise, war is a favourite pastime of the idle and frivolous...

Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?