Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

The principal cause of war is war itself.

Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.