Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is not a conceivable enemy unless we create it, not a nation that would fight us if it could.

I don’t think we should go to war with one person’s authority..

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

The Congress decides when to make war and the President decides how to make war.

War is the second worst activity of mankind, the worst being acquiescence in slavery.

War is a terribly destructive force, even beyond the limits of the battlefronts and the war zones. It's influence involves the whole community. It warps men's judgement, distorts the true standard of patriotism, breeds distrust and suspicion among neighbors, inflames passions, encourages violence, develops abuse of power, tyrannizes over men and women even in the purely social relations of life, and terrifies whole communities into the most abject surrender of every right which is the heritage of free government.

War is no more inevitable than the plague is inevitable. War is no more a part of human nature than the burning of witches is a human act.

Whenever peace—conceived as the avoidance of war—has been the primary objective of a power or group of powers, the international system has been at the mercy of the most ruthless member of the international community.

You have repeatedly asserted that you and the German people have no desire for war. If this is true there need be no war. Nothing can persuade the peoples of the earth that any governing power has any right or need to inflict the consequences of war on its own or any other people save in the cause of self-evident home defense.

Engagement is better than non-engagement except in the case of some really horrible countries.

What right have the rulers of nations to unsheath the sword of destruction, and to let loose the demons of desolation upon mankind, whenever caprice or pride, ambition or avarice, shall prescribe?

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

The belief that war is inevitable makes of war a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

Almost certainly there will be vicious wars between the states.