Congress Quote by Abraham Clark

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

— Charles Sumner

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this…

— John Paul Jones

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

— Thomas Paine

We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

— Sheikh Abdullah

Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of…

— Pablo Neruda

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and…

— George Washington

War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of…

— Theodore Roosevelt

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

— Mark Twain

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy…

— Thomas Carlyle

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

— Alice Walker

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

— Edward Gibbon

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

— Stanley A. McChrystal