I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international affairs.

I shall return.

Nuts!

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

And this I hate-not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild grinning face.

For what can war but endless war still breed?