There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

There can be no compromise with war.