Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.