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Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent’s eye that charms to destroy.
Abraham Lincoln.
The friends of humanity will deprecate war, whenever it may appear. George Washington.
There is no need of bloodshed and war. Abraham Lincoln.
Wars are largely the result of unbridled passions.
Clara Barton.
War is only splendid murder. James Thomson.
War is the mad game that the world so loves to play. Swift.
Every battleship is a menace to the peace of the world. With each new battleship every nation carries a chip on its shoulder.
Clara Barton.
The Red Cross took its rise in, and derived its existence from, war. Without war it had no existence. Clara Barton.
Deplore it as we may, war is the great act of all history.
Clara Barton.
War has been the rule, if not largely the occupation, of the peoples of the earth from their earliest history. Clara Barton.
Scarcely a quarter of the earth is yet civilized, and that quarter not beyond the probabilities of war. Clara Barton.
General Sherman was right when, addressing an assemblage of cadets, he told them “war was hell!” Take it as you will, it is this;—whoever has looked active war full in the face has caught some glimpse of regions as infernal as he may ever fear to see.
Clara Barton.
Only time, prolonged effort, national economics, universal progress and the pressure of public opinion could ever hope to grapple with the existence of war, the monster evil of the ages.
Clara Barton.
I have studied the massing of forces and scanned from point to point the old battle-grounds of Marengo and Jena and Waterloo and the Magenta and Solferino and it has seemed to me that these armies had a fairer field and a better chance than ours, in the Civil War. Clara Barton.
War may be a great harmonizer, but it is not a humanizer.
Clara Barton.
That which is won by the sword must be held by the sword, whether it is worth the cost or not. Clara Barton.
If there be any power on earth which can right the wrongs for which a nation goes to war, I pray it may be made manifest.
Clara Barton.
If there be any good wars, I will attend them.
Sir Philip Sidney.
That noble and numerous class of patriots who are brave with other men’s lives and lavish of other men’s money. Gladstone.
There never was a good war, nor a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin.
Don’t talk about war; we have done with war. The Peace of the world is the question now. Clara Barton.