War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.