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

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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

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.