"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."

"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."

"I think the mark of a great ruler, is not his ability to make war but to achieve peace."

"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."

"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."