Freemason Quote by Albert Pike

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught…

— Albert Pike

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

— Albert Pike

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives…

— Jacque Fresco

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

— Anonymous

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers,…

— George Santayana

“Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in a capitalist society, a society that increasingly restricts the scope and credibility of appeals to…

— Susan Sontag

“War is the extreme edge of capitalism: an economic system so designed that it is always tipped in balance so that the mouth of…

— Patricia J. McLean

WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

— Ambrose Bierce

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

— Walter Bagehot