“I have been in a war with outdated language.”

“Instead of it (World War I) having been a war to end wars - it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.”

“The war is language,
language abused
for Advertisement,
language used
like magic for power on the planet.”

“I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.”

“And the war was a terrible war, but it was a war for human freedom, and if the South had succeeded and if slavery had been extended, the United States, or part of it, might very well have been on the side of Hitler in the Second World War. We would not have been the bastion of freedom we have been in the twentieth century.”

“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”

“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told.”

“If there had been no war, perhaps I would have already discovered a lot by now.”

“It is above all the language for expressing these truths that have not yet been found.”

“The fact is that the two major nuclear powers have not gone to war against each other—because, I believe, nuclear weapons are achieving their purpose as a deterrent that makes the prospect of war too horrific. It is noteworthy that, since the last world war, there have been 140 conventional wars, fought with ordinary weapons, which are themselves horrific, and that nuclear weapons have been a deterrent to war. I therefore believe that we should keep them.”