Thomas A. Edison

"Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none."

Stuart Chase

"Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia."

George Pickett Gettysburg

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

Bertrand Russell

"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man."

Napoleon Hill

"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."

Albert Pike

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

John Stuart Mill

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

Barbara Tuchman

"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."

George Herbert

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."

John F. Kennedy

"War would end if the dead could return."

Stanley Baldwin

"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

Salvador Dali

"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in."

Colin Powell

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill

"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."

Robert E. Lee

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

Henry David Thoreau

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"

Benjamin Spock

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"

Norman Cousins

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

Jeannette Rankin