Clarence Darrow Quotes

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

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

We will need ploughshares and swords.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

From time immemorial, people have talked about peace without achieving it. Do we simply lack enough experience? Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. . . . War may be too much a part of history to be eliminated—ever.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

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.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

We seek no wider war.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

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