From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

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.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.