Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none. Thomas Jefferson, 1801. Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892.
War is the mass murder of workers.
When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war. Keir Hardie, 1856-1915. The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies. Treaty of Paris, Article 1, 1919. The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace.