Felix Frankfurter Quotes

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

Sure we won the war, but the peace we’re losing badly.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

We talk a great deal about war and do nothing.

Could we have avoided this terrible, bloody war! … Is it ever to end!

It’s damn easy to get into a war, but damned harder to extricate yourself once you get in.

All wars are mishandled.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Nothing can justify war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.