He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.