Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.

I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.

As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

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

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

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

War is the trade of Kings.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

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.