Will Rogers Quotes

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities

Today the scale and horror of modern warfare, whether nuclear or not, makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past—to history. It should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

War, which remains an anomaly in a civilized world, has taken on so devastating and universal a character...that every thought and every effort should be aimed, above all, at making it impossible.

Our primary objective must be to prevent wars, and when we fail in this, we must protect and assist the innocent victims.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We must take the profit out of war.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

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

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Take the profits out of war.

We talk a great deal about war and do nothing.

Although war cannot be ended, wars can.

We will prevent war, whatever it takes.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.