Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-06-27 Jun 27, 2025War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.~ C. S. LewisArms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is well that war is so terrible -- we should grow too fond of it.~ Robert E. Lee Jun 26, 2025All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherWe have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.~ General Omar Bradley Jun 25, 2025No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?~ Daniel WebsterThe powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.~ James MadisonThe Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger Sherman Jun 24, 2025We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.~ Albert WohlstetterHe who wants peace must prepare for war.~ ClaudiusTo be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.~ George Washington Jun 23, 2025You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.~ Indira GandhiHistory teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.~ Abba EbanAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print