Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

Nothing can justify war.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

What the devil are we going to be at with this great fleet, and the reinforcements if ships and troops that are following? The Danes have done nothing hostile towards us … Would it be justifiable without any previous hostile act?

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

The best war is when you can hate both sides.

Anyone who clings to the historically untrue and thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything, I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I like war.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.

We seek no wider war.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.