Cardinals Quote by Thomas Hobbes

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

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

— Thomas Hobbes

“We live among nations who frequently wage unjust wars; who, disregarding the rights of others, oppress and rob, and even murder their citizens, in…

— Henry Wager Halleck

“They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil, but that the evil is greater than the good. And…

— Plato

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that…

— John Stuart Mill

“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man ought ever…

— G.K. Chesterton

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons…

— Gilbert Murray

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

“There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a justified war but there is a war…

— Boris Zubry

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

— Ayn Rand

“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more…

— Plutarch