Diplomatic Quote by Eugene McCarthy

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

— Tony Benn

The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

— Liu Xiaobo

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

— Thomas Jefferson

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.

— Lawrence S. Wittner

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

— Anonymous

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

— Bill Moyers

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice…

— Mike Hoffman

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

— Albert Einstein

A war put off is not a war avoided.

— Charlton Heston

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

War is a catalouge of blunders.

— Winston Churchill