Endeavor Quote by Otto Von Bismarck

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest—not for jealousy—not for war—but for peace!”

— Sinclair Lewis

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a…

— John Boyd Orr

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy…

— Aeschines

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

— David Starr Jordan

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

— Juvenal

That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the…

— Robert H. Jackson

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of…

— James A. Garfield

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the…

— Eldridge Cleaver