 The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. |
| The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective. |
| The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. |
| War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. |
| Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. |
| Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. |
| It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. |
| Men do not fail; they give up trying. |
| Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly. |
