Chief Joseph Quotes

From the earliest dawnings of policy to this day, the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essays of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, cannoneering, bombarding, mining, and all those species of artificial, learned, and refined cruelty, in which we are now so expert, and which make a principal part of what politicians have taught us to believe is our principal glory.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

... merely another weapon.

We are fighting in our own house. It is useless to live on burned ruins.

Wars ruin armies.

I do not want to lead an army of mercenaries.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

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

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Guns know no policy except destruction.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

Oh say, can you see, it's really such a mess. Every inch of earth is a fighting nest. Giant pencial and lipstick tube shaped things, continue to rain and cause scream and pain, and the arctic stains from silver blue to bloody red.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.