Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Worry is a form of fear.

Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.