Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war but I could not. The North was mad and blind would not let us govern ourselves and so the war came.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.