Harry Bridges Quotes

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

I fought for peace in the fifties.

We must take the profit out of war.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

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

War is failure of diplomacy.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace.

The Socialist Party emphatically rejects the proposal that in times of war, the workers should suspend their struggle for better conditions.

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

Take your guns, your knives, and your pangas, and throw them into the sea. Close down the death factories. End this war now.

The truth is that one cannot choose the form of war one wants.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

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.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.