Billy Graham Quotes

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

War is the most serious of the complicated relationships of humankind.

I think we might well ask: How does one destroy his enemy by becoming like him?

If you do not accept the yoke of the Church and the King of Spain, I will make war on you everywhere in every way that I can. The death and destruction will be your fault.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

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.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of