Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-08-09 Aug 8, 2003I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.~ Ulysses S. GrantThere is no way to peace; peace is the way.~ A. J. MusteBeware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ AesopThe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick Douglass Aug 7, 2003Military glory -- the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.~ Abraham LincolnEndless money forms the sinews of war.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.~ Harry S. Truman Aug 6, 2003Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?~ Woodrow WilsonHow you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience. It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even deceit, can sleep better.~ Mark TwainNo one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.~ Salvador de Madariaga Aug 5, 2003They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.~ Eugene DebsWar is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.~ Karl von ClausewitzPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.~ Mao Tse-Tung Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print