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- You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. — Ernest Hemingway
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. — James Madison
- Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. — Thomas Paine
- Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine
- But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing. — Thomas Paine