“A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the tr…”— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com
“Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of the Axis powers to dominate the world.”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“In bitter despair, some people have come to believe that wars are inevitable. With tragic fatalism, they insist that wars have always been, of necessity, and of necessity wars always will be. To such defeatism, men and women of good will must not and can not yield. The outlook for humanity is not so…”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org
“Tell me who defends you, and I will tell you who you are! Tell me who attacks you, and I will tell you who you are!”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“We are sustained by the deepest conviction that ideas are worth more than weapons, no matter how sophisticated and powerful those weapons may be.”— Fidel Castro, marxists.org
“The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths Peace.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“When one has stood face to face with famine, with death by starvation itself, then surely one should have had one's eyes opened to the full extent of this misfortune. When one has beheld the great beseeching eyes in the starved faces of children staring hopelessly into the fading daylight, the eyes…”— Fridtjof Nansen, nobelprize.org
“War could never be the result of individual or irresponsible will, but must be a measure of redress for injuries sustained.”— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com
“It is really unjust to the Vienna governmental circles to reproach them with having instigated a war which might have been prevented. The war was bound to come. Perhaps it might have been postponed for a year or two at the most. But it had always been the misfortune of German as well as Austrian dip…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“The Conduct of some individuals of the Treaty Majority has disappointed me a good deal. That of the executive something also, but much less. From the insidious professions Which were made in Feby. and March I had been led to hope that a more temperate System would have been adopted. All such expecta…”— Aaron Burr, founders.archives.gov
“War is wrong. Conscription is a concomitant of modern war. Thus, conscription for so vast an evil as war is wrong.”— Bayard Rustin, afsc.org
“In time of war, the general social condition is fertile soil for the development of hate and fear, and transference of these to minority groups is quite simple.”— Bayard Rustin, explorepahistory.com
“I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“Its body was carved with men and pythons and little steps were cut on one side; without these the drummer could not climb to the top to beat it. When the Ikolo was beaten for war it was decorated with skulls won in past wars. But now it sang of peace.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Great and formidable Prince Duke of Burgundy, Joan the Maiden requests of you, in the name of the King of Heaven, my rightful and sovereign Lord, that the King of France and yourself should make a good firm lasting peace. Fully pardon each other willingly, as faithful Christians should do; and if it…”— Joan of Arc, archive.joan-of-arc.org
“France, the King of Heaven orders and notifies you through me, Joan the Maiden to leave your fortresses and go back to your own country; or I will produce a clash of arms to be eternally remembered. And this is the third and last time I have written to you; I shall not write anything further. Jesus,…”— Joan of Arc, archive.joan-of-arc.org
“King of England…Hand over to the Maiden who is sent here by God the King of Heaven, the keys to all the towns which you have taken and violated in France. She has come here in the name of God to support the Royal family. She is quite prepared to make peace, if you are willing to do right, so long as…”— Joan of Arc, archive.joan-of-arc.org