No War Quotes
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205.
Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Everything depends on the Americans. If they want to make war for 20 years then we shall make war for 20 years. If they want to make peace, we shall make peace and invite them to tea afterwards.
Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven!
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours.
I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing.
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.