Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. 

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

 There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.

War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it
causes is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition
and our history, the place we had to live in.

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. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! 

Either war is obsolete or men are.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.