“I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war”

“We'd be the safest country in the world if the world knew we didn't have a gun. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one has a gun.”

“Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both.”

“You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.”

“We're half the people we should be half the Congress.”

“What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.”

“If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war.”

“Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.”

“War grows out of ordinary human nature.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.”

“I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth an...”

“In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.”