If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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

Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.

Death and injury caused by armed violence is one of the most shameful epidemics of our age.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

Believe it when you see it.Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room.

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.