Nation Conflict Quotes

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.