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Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would read more
If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War is the science of destruction.
War is the science of destruction.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those read more
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, read more
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international
obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting
man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are
fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are
not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the
arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.