The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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