Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-07-01 Jul 1, 2025I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.~ Ulysses S. GrantLet 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. ... The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.~ Alexander HamiltonA just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.~ Sir Francis Bacon Jun 30, 2025Endless money forms the sinews of war.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroWar is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.~ James MadisonAnother not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.~ Joseph Story Jun 27, 2025War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.~ C. S. LewisArms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is well that war is so terrible -- we should grow too fond of it.~ Robert E. Lee Jun 26, 2025All of us have heard this term "preventive war" since the earliest days of Hitler. ... A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war. ... I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerThe essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.~ John A. FisherWe have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.~ General Omar Bradley Jun 25, 2025No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?~ Daniel WebsterThe powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce.~ James MadisonThe Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.~ Roger Sherman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print