“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.”

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year”

“A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.”

“Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160)”

“The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.”

“The professed object of war generally is to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace: but war never did and never will preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace, for it is a divine decree that all nations who take the sword shall perish with the sword. War is no more adapted to preserve liberty and produce a lasting peace than midnight darkness is to produce noonday light.”

“it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.”