Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

George Washington

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But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight Eisenhower

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So long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.

Franklin Roosevelt

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Everyone can see how communism rots the soul of a nation. How it makes it abject in peace and proves it abominable in war.

Winston Churchill

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When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

M. K. Gandhi

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

George Bernard Shaw

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