Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)