War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

And blood in torrents pours in vain-always in vain, For war breeds war again.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

War is sweet to those who do not fight.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.