“Peace upon earth!” was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousands years of mass,
We’ve got as far as poison gas.
--THOMAS HARDY (1840–1928)

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
--BLAISE PASCAL (1623–1662)

Give me the money that has been spent in war, and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens would be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to the gospel of peace. I will support in every pulpit an able teacher of righteousness so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another round the earth’s wide circumference; and the voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend like an universal holocaust to heaven.
--CHARLES SUMNER (1811–1874)

If there is another war, there will be no victors, only losers.
--RICHARD M. NIXON (1913–1994)

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature and fathers bury sons.
--HERODOTUS (C. 484–C. 425 B.C.)

O war! thou son of hell!
--WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616)

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