The Miracle of Forgiveness, Kimball, pp. 150-151
“The most famous maxim of the nineteenth century military theorist Karl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics by other means.” ((Burns, Burns, and Ward, The Civil War, p. 350)
“We recognize the battle-field as a reality, but it stands as a remote one. It is like a funeral next door. It attracts your attention, but it does not enlist your sympathy. But it is very different when the hearse stops at your own door and the corpse is carried over your own threshold.” (A New York Times reporter, 1862, The Civil War, Burns, Burns, and Ward, p.161)
“Latter-day Saints know this earth will never again during its Telestial existence, be free from civil disturbance and war.” (Marion G. Romney, Improvement Era, June 1967, p.77)
“If men of good will can bring themselves to do so, they may save the world from a holocaust, the depth and breadth of which can scarcely be imagined. We are confident that when there is enough of a desire for peace and a will to bring it about, it is not beyond the possibility of attainment.” (First Presidency Statement, Church News, Dec. 20, 1980, p.3)
“War doesn’t solve a single human problem, and yet the one place where our generation excels most is in its ability to make war… . Our failure has been that while we have perfected weapons, we have failed to perfect the men who may be asked to use them.” (Sterling W. Sill, Conference Report, Apr. 1966, pp. 20-21)
“In our society today, we find that we are very well prepared for war. However, in that preparation for war we have lost the spiritual strength necessary to prevent it.” (Dean Garrett, CES Book of Mormon Symposium, 1986, p.52)