Nathaniel Macon Quotes

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

The United States will never take part in an aggressive war.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about 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.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

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

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

We must take the profit out of war.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

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

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.