Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era–a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
~Admiral James D. Watkins
In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop
Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~Aldous Huxley
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
