Killing more people won't help matters.

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.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

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

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

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .