To lead an uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?

It is indeed difficult to insure triumph when it depends on the success of bayonets, for war is always a hazard.

We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

Laws are silent in time of war.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

It is easier to lead men to combat and to stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.

I am tired-my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

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