Assembly Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.

— Thomas Jefferson

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

— Anonymous

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…

— Baruch Spinoza

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government…

— James Madison

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

— Carl von Clausewitz

“The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must…

— Henry Kissinger

“All wars are sacred,” he said. “To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who…

— Margaret Mitchell

No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is…

— Margaret Mitchell

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

— Lester B. Pearson

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

— George Orwell

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke