There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
Peace cannot be unilateral.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
It's impossible to impose peace, only to create it.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.