If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these read more

I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. [We'd] find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that
this is war.

All's fair in love and war.

All's fair in love and war.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only read more

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.