Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
A skilful leech is better far than half a hundred men of war.
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
It is good that war is so horrible or we might grow to like it.
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it.
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
