War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To cur…

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all deli…

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands,…

What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the intern…

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (on the Diane Rehm Show.

People rarely win wars; governments rarely lose them.