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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
War settles nothing.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.