American writers on peace and against war
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
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George Ade: The dubious rights granted a people “liberated” through war
Conrad Aiken: Vast symphonic dance of death
Emily Gilmore Alden: The world should write more victories, the victories of love
Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Black squadrons wheeling down to Death!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Disembodied souls steal into the air from ancient battlefields
Thomas Bailey Aldrich: “For Bravery on the Field of Battle”
Julius Myron Alexander: The Flag of Peace
Julius Myron Alexander: It is but war, ask not the cause
William Alexander: Cover’d with a bloody stain fields that once look’d pleasantly
William Alexander: No sooner does peace descend than golden age of literature and poetry arises
Hervey Allen: Hands off our dead! To war orators.
James Lane Allen: Then white and heavenly Peace again. Eteocles and Polyneices in America
Ellen P. Allerton: Peace After War
Sherwood Anderson: War destroys brotherhood
W. H. Anderson: Our Brother’s Keeper
H. Lavinia Baily: By the Sea. An Argument for Peace.
H. Lavinia Baily: A Lost Song?
Josephine Turck Baker: To the Mothers of the Martyred Dead upon the Field of Battle
Joel Barlow: War after war his hungry soul require, each land lie reeking with its people’s slain
Katharine Lee Bates: Selections on war and peace
Katharine Lee Bates: Carnage! Bayonet, bomb and shell! Merry reading for hell!
Katherine Lee Bates: Children of the War
Katharine Lee Bates: The doomful, mad torpedo, the colossal slaughter-guns
Katherine Lee Bates: Fodder for Cannon
Katharine Lee Bates: Marching Feet
Katharine Lee Bates: When the Millennium Comes
Edward Bellamy: We have no wars now, and our governments no war powers
Stephen Vincent Benét: The dead march from the last to the next blind war
Stephen Vincent Benét: Nightmare For Future Reference: The second year of the Third World War
Stephen Vincent Benét: Toy soldiers
William Rose Benét: The Red Country
Ida Whipple Benham: The Friend of Peace
Ida Whipple Benham: War’s weeding
Ida Whipple Benham: The White Prince of peace
Adelaide George Bennett: The Peace-Pipe Quarry
Samuel Bernard: A pipe dream of peace
Horace P. Biddle: Wine, War, and Love
Ambrose Bierce: Selections on war
Ambrose Bierce: The Coup de Grâce
Ambrose Bierce: The general’s faithful progenitor
Ambrose Bierce: He created patriotism and taught the nations war
Ambrose Bierce: Killed At Resaca
Ambrose Bierce: Military Malthusianism
Ambrose Bierce: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce: War as parricide
Ambrose Bierce: Warlike America
Charles A. Blanchard: What is war? Is peace possible?
Robert Bly: War, writers and government money
Carl John Bostelmann: Hate, still thy drums! War, make thy trumpets mute!
Randolph Bourne: Selections on war
Randolph Bourne: The War and the Intellectuals
Randolph Bourne: War and the State
Randolph Bourne: Willing war means willing all the evils that are organically bound up with it
Randolph Bourne: Conscience and Intelligence in War
Randolph Bourne: Twilight of Idols
Randolph Bourne: Below the Battle
Berton Braley: The nobler army fights the bloodless battles of industry and peace
Edward Arnold Brenholtz: Selections on peace and war
Edwin Arnold Brenholtz: The Demon, War
Edwin Arnold Brenholtz: The Dying Warrior
Edwin Arnold Brenholtz: If war is sane, make me insane
Edward Arnold Brenholtz: Now be the God of Peace adored
Edwin Arnold Brenholtz: The Passion of Peace
Edwin Arnold Brenholtz: Peace, the Conqueror
Louis Bromfield: NATO, Permanent War Panic and America’s Messiah Complex
Van Wyck Brooks: The truth about war that Mark Twain could only divulge after death
William E. Brooks: Memorial Day
Laura Helena Brower: Heritage. The blighted fruit of war.
Charles Brockden Brown: Such is the spectacle exhibited in every field of battle
Waldo R. Browne: War, a parable
Kenneth Bruce: Universal Peace
William Cullen Bryant: Christmas 1875
John Wright Buckham: The Heroisms of Peace
Kenneth Burke: Even portraying war in best light shows cultural superiority of peace
George Shepard Burleigh: Martial Heroism
George Shepard Burleigh: When shall the crystal fount of Peace wash out the hideous stain of blood?
Dana Burnett: Selections on war
Dana Burnet: Ammunition. The Dead.
Dana Burnet: Christmas in the Trenches
Dana Burnet: Sleep, Little Soldier, Sleep
Dana Burnet: The world’s awry and there are no more dreams!
Vincent Godfrey Burns: An Ex-Serviceman Makes a Vow
Vincent Godfrey Burns: Hell à la mode
Vincent Godfrey Burns: The Hun
Amelia Josephine Burr: Two Viewpoints
Struthers Burt: To a Friend Wanting War
William Herbert Carruth: When the Cannon Booms
Alice Cary: Better dwell the lowliest shepherd of Arcadia’s bowers
William Ellery Channing: Sermon on War
Anne Cleveland Cheney: All Ye Who Pass By
Charles Chesnutt: Justice, Peace – the seed and the flower of civilisation
Thomas Curtis Clark: Apparitions
Thomas Curtis Clark: Bugle Song of Peace
Thomas Curtis Clark: Who made war?
Florence Earle Coates: The New Mars
Humphrey Cobb: Selections on war
Humphrey Cobb: Generals are reassured by the smell of the dead
Humphrey Cobb: Hallucination of fantastic butchery; too much for one man to bear
Humphrey Cobb: The paths of glory lead but to the rats
Humphrey Cobb: Reworking the sixth commandment for war; thou shalt not commit individual murder
Humphrey Cobb: War never settled anything except who was the strongest
John Collins: Till war becomes a crime abhorred, and earth be blessed with endless peace
Elizabeth Connor: This World War
James Fenimore Cooper: Selections on peace and war
James Fenimore Cooper: Always much of exaggeration in both boasting and apologies of war
James Fenimore Cooper: Battleground, the very consummation of human misery
James Fenimore Cooper: The doom of a soldier
James Fenimore Cooper: The dubiety and ineptitude of soldiering
James Fenimore Cooper: Is there a star where war and bloodshed aren’t known?
James Fenimore Cooper: A person who loves someone doesn’t send him to war
James Fenimore Cooper: The short-lived patriotism of war
James Fenimore Cooper: The uncelebrated victims of war
James Fenimore Cooper: War’s victory not worth the sacrifice of human life
Malcolm Cowley: By day there are only the dead
Wilbur F. Crafts: Not mailed but nailed the hands he turned to the world
Stephen Crane: An Episode of War
Stephen Crane: There was crimson clash of war
F. Marion Crawford: Find a priest for those I have killed
F. Marion Crawford: The real issue is between civilization and barbarism, between peace and war
F. Marion Crawford: When everyone understands war it will stop by universal consent
Maria Briscoe Croker: War and Peace
Ernest Crosby: Selections against war, for peace
Ernest Crosby: The Bugler in the Rear
Ernest Crosby: The Peace Congress
Ernest Crosby: Peace has outgrown all that, for Peace is a man
Ernest Crosby: They know not love that love not peace
Martha Foote Crow: There is no Christ left in all those carnage-loving lands
E. E. Cummings: Detention camp during wartime
Mary L. Cummins: The News of War
Mary L. Cummins: The Women Who Wait
Olive Tilford Dargan: Beyond War
Richard Harding Davis: Destruction versus civilization, soldiers and engineers
John William De Forest: Uncivil war
Cecelia De Vere: The American flag. Peacemakers, called the children of Great God.
Emily Dickinson: I many times thought Peace had come
Nathan Haskell Dole: Selections on peace
Nathan Haskell Dole: Death: War is my Master-stroke since Days of Yore
Nathan Haskell Dole: Here are War’s pomp and circumstance
Nathan Haskell Dole: Peace’s exultation
Nathan Haskell Dole: The Reign of Peace
Nathan Haskell Dole: Thanks offering of the God of Waste and Destruction
Nathan Haskell Dole: The Vision of Peace
John Dos Passos: Selections on war
John Dos Passos: Meat for guns. Shot for saying the war was wrong.
John Dos Passos: The miserable dullness of industrialized slaughter
John Dos Passos: Not wake up till the war was over and you could be a human being again
John Dos Passos: They were going to kill everybody who spoke that language
John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers
John Dos Passos on Randolph Bourne: War is the health of the state
John Dos Passos: What was the good of stopping the war if the armies continued?
Marion Doyle: Mars and Kings have silenced all their singing
Theodore Dreiser: The logic of military victory, an apologue
Theodore Dreiser and Smedley Butler: War is a Racket
Louise Driscoll: The Metal Checks
W.E.B. Du Bois: Work for Peace
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Birds of peace and deadened hearts
Finley Peter Dunne: A great nation at war (in the vernacular)
J.A. Edgerton: A Song of Peace
J.A. Edgerton: When the cannon’s roar shall be heard no more
Emma Catherine Embury: Proud soldier turns from scenes of war
Ralph Waldo Emerson: All history is the decline of war. Cannot peace be, as well as war?
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The cause of peace is not the cause of cowardice
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence of civilization over barbarism
Nathaniel Evans: Ode on the Prospect of Peace
Laura Bell Everett: The Skein of Grievous War
Marianne Farningham: Give Peace
William Faulkner: All we ever needed to do is just say, Enough of this
William Faulkner: There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
William Faulkner: To militarists, all civilians, even their own, are alien intruders
Eugene Field and Thorne Smith: Bacchus disables Mars
F. Scott Fitzgerald: War comes to Princeton
Mary Weston Fordham: Ode to Peace
Harold Frederic: War inflicts stifling political conformity
Robert Freeman: Peace on Earth
Philip Freneau: Death smiles alike at battles lost or won
Philip Freneau: The Prospect of Peace
Henry Blake Fuller: Killed and wounded on the fields of hate
Margaret Fuller: America, with no prouder emblem than the Dove
F. Benjamin Gage: The Sword and the Plough
Hamlin Garland: Cog in a vast machine for killing men
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: Selections from the Peace Sonnets
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: The blessed salve of peace for the whole bleeding world
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: Crown him with many crowns, the Prince of Peace
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: I sing the soldiers of the coming wars, those that save and heal
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: They say they are of Christ and do the works of Cain
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: War is the mailèd hand of criminal states
Jessie Wiseman Gibbs: We feed bread of our children to the war-god’s greed
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Flag of Peace
Mary Putnam Gilmore: Sweet Peace is Here
Ellen Glasgow: Selections on war
Ellen Glasgow: The Altar of the War God
Ellen Glasgow: His vision of the future only an endless warfare and a wasted land
Ellen Glasgow: The Reign of the Brute
Ellen Glasgow: “That killed how many? how many?”
Edgar Guest: The Peaceful Warriors
Louise Imogen Guiney: The voice of Peace
Hermann Hagedorn: Selections against war
Hermann Hagedorn: The fourth estate turning the thoughts of our children to war
Hermann Hagedorn: How to engineer a war
Hermann Hagedorn: Leave God out of the game!
Hermann Hagedorn: Slaughter! And voices, begging shrill the merciful grace of death.
Hermann Hagedorn; There’s nothing like a war to make a man president
James Norman Hall: Broken, bleeding bodies with all their beauty gone
Hala Jean Hammond: War’s black hatred
Philip M. Harding: White Feather
C. F. Harper: Song of the Battleships
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Selections on peace and war
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Furl the banners stained with blood, ’till war shall be no more
Frances Ellen Harper Watkins: Grant that peace and joy and gladness may like holy angels tread
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Home from war
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Music to soothe all sorrow till war and crime shall cease
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Peace till war and crime shall cease
Frank Harris: Henri Barbusse and the war against war
Charles Yale Harrison: Selections on war
Charles Yale Harrison: Bombardment, maniacal congealed hatred
Charles Yale Harrison: This is called an artillery duel
Charles Yale Harrison: War and really murdering someone
Charles Yale Harrison: War’s snarling, savage beasts
Charles Yale Harrison: War’s whispered reminder, you must come back to my howling madness
Charles Yale Harrison: We have learned who our enemies are
Ernest Hartsock: Let Mars and all his mangled mourners pass
Ernest Hartsock: Who told you God raises sons to slay them all in battle?
W. T. Hawkins: A Song of Peace
Julian Hawthorne: Why soldiers become prison guards
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Selections on war
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Did iron-hearted War itself ever do so hard and cruel a thing as this before?
Nathaniel Hawthorne on war: Drinking out of skulls till the Millennium
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Every warlike achievement involves an amount of physical and moral evil
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Slaughter’s way. No laurel wreath can wake the silent dead.
Ernest Hemingway: Selections on war
Ernest Hemingway: All armies are the same
Ernest Hemingway: Champs d’Honneur
Ernest Hemingway: Combat the murder that is war
Ernest Hemingway: “Down with the officers. Viva la Pace!”
Ernest Hemingway: “If everybody would not attack the war would be over”
Ernest Hemingway: “It doesn’t finish. There is no finish to a war.”
Ernest Hemingway: Nothing sacred about war’s stockyards
Ernest Hemingway: Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever.
Ernest Hemingway: There are people who would make war, there are other people who would not make war
Ernest Hemingway: Who wins wars?
O. Henry: The ethics of justifiable slaughter
Stefan Heym: Sure it’s a vicious circle, it’s war
Stefan Heym: The whole scene was immersed in the silence of absolute death
Stefan Heym: The world market…making new wars
Amanda M. Hicks: A Truce for the Toilers
Leslie Pinckney Hill: The patriotism of pacifism
Martha Lavinia Hoffman: The Song of Peace
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Hymn to Peace
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Not so enamored of the drum and trumpet
John Horn: False Ideas About War and Peace
Julia Ward Howe: The Development of the Peace Ideal
Julia Ward Howe: Mother’s Day Proclamation 1870
William Dean Howells: Selections on war
William Deans Howells: Everyday sacrifices.”I don’t want to see any more men killed in my time.”
William Dean Howells: If we have war, every good cause will be set back
William Dean Howells to Henry James: The most stupid and causeless war
William Dean Howells: On Mark Twain and war
William Dean Howells: Spanish Prisoners of War
William Dean Howells to Mark Twain: War for humanity turned into war for coal-stations
William Dean Howells: The very name of our country implies the absence of war
William Dean Howells to Mark Twain: War for humanity turned into war for coal-stations
William Dean Howells: War Stops Literature
William Dean Howells: Warmongers should tremble when they remember that God is just
William Dean Howells: Wilson’s Mexican war, wickeder than that of 1846
Langston Hughes: A mighty army serving human kind, not an army geared to kill
James Huneker: Remy de Gourmont and philosophic abhorrence of war
Frank Walcott Hutt: The Peace Congress
Washington Irving: The laudable spirit of military emulation. Soldiers, poor animals
Washington Irving: Most pacific nation in the world? Rather the most warlike
Washington Irving: The renown not purchased by deeds of violence and blood
Helen Hunt Jackson: No war in nature even during month of Mars
Henry James: Selections on war
Henry James: No more sacrifice on the altar of war
Henry James: War, the waste of life and time and money
William James: Selections on war
William James: The horrors of a war of conquest
William James: The Moral Equivalent of War
William James: Party of civilization must oppose increase of military might
William James: The Philippine Tangle
William James: A sweet little place. One never sees a soldier.
Randall Jarrell: In bombers named for girls, we burned the cities we had learned about in school
Robinson Jeffers: Eagle Valor, Chicken Mind
Robert Underwood Johnson: The Cost
Robert Underwood Johnson: The fairest of daughters, heavenly Peace
Rossiter Johnson: Infinitely better to learn how to avert war
Rossiter Johnson: Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung by peaceful rivers yet to flow?
Albert Fenner Kercheval: Peace sheds her silvery light on all compass points
Frederic Lawrence Knowles: The New Age. The victory which is peace.
Raymond Kresensky: When patriotism is pushing propaganda for war
Sidney Lanier: Selections on war
Sidney Lanier: Blood-red flower of war, whose odors strangle a people, whose roots are in hell
Sidney Lanier: Dialogue on the war-flower
Sidney Lanier: War by other means
Sidney Lanier: The wind blew all the vanes in the country in one way – toward war
Richard Le Gallienne: Selections on war
Richard Le Gallienne: Christ at Notre Dame: abhorred be they who ever draw again the sword
Richard Le Gallienne: The Illusion of War
Richard Le Gallienne: Is this to be strong, ye nations, your vulgar battles to fight?
Richard Le Gallienne: A nation is merely a big fool with an army
Richard Le Gallienne: Poetry and war
Richard Le Gallienne: The Rainbow
Derrick Norman Lehmer: Militarism
William Ellery Leonard: The Pied Piper
Sinclair Lewis: Selections on war
Sinclair Lewis: Can’t depend on Providence to supply wars when you need them
Sinclair Lewis: The democracy of death
Sinclair Lewis: The disguised increase, false economizing of war budgets
Sinclair Lewis: Don’t much care what kind of war they prepare for
Sinclair Lewis: General: State of peace far worse than war
Sinclair Lewis: Inevitable war with Canada, Mexico, Russia, Cuba, Japan, or perhaps Staten Island
Sinclair Lewis: It Can(‘t) Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis: Other Unavoidable Wars to End All Wars
Sinclair Lewis: Pining for a good war
Vachel Lindsay: Speak Now for Peace
Vachel Lindsay: Tolstoi, that angel of peace
Vachel Lindsay: The Unpardonable Sin
Martha Shepard Lippincott: Nations now for mammon fight
Martha Shepard Lippincott: Peace on Earth
Martha Shepard Lippincott: Shame will fall upon us for barbarous deeds of war
Jack London: Some day all men will counsel peace. No man will slay his fellow. All men will plant.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Forevermore, forevermore, the reign of violence is o’er!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I am weary of your quarrels, weary of your wars and bloodshed
Amy Lowell: A pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?
James Russell Lowell: Selections on war and peace
James Russell Lowell: Dante and universal peace
James Russell Lowell: The military qualifications of a prospective president
James Russell Lowell: Uncle Sam presents his bill for war
James Russell Lowell: A war supporter’s credo
Ernest Neal Lyon: A Dream of Peace
Archibald MacLeish: The disastrous war, the silent slain
Albert Maltz: A children’s wartime bestiary
Albert Maltz: Conquering the world but losing your son
Albert Maltz: “Ten thousand dead today. That’s what the war means.”
Edwin Markham: Peace Over Africa
Edwin Markham: Semiramis, the conqueror
E. P. Marvin: War Disenchanted
Caroline Atherton Mason: Enemy, oh, let our warfare cease!
Edgar Lee Masters: “The honor of the flag must be upheld”
Edgar Lee Masters: The Philippine Conquest
Edgar Lee Masters: The words, Pro Patria, what do they mean, anyway?
Peter Maurin: Disarmament of the heart
John McGovern: War: three letters, fifty million plunged into worst misfortune
Thomas McGrath: Against the False Magicians
Thomas McGrath: All the Dead Soldiers
Thomas McGrath: Nocturne Militaire
Thomas McGrath: Ode for the American Dead in Asia
Thomas McGrath: Senators mine our lives for another war
Grenville Mellen: The Lonely Bugle Grieves
Grenville Mellen: Slaughter rides screaming on the vengeful ball
Herman Melville: Selections on peace and war
Herman Melville: All the cruel carnal glory wrought out by naval heroes
Herman Melville: Characterological drawback of consorting with cannon
Herman Melville: Gaining glory by a distinguished slaughtering of their fellow-men
Herman Melville: How can a religion of peace flourish in a castle of war?
Herman Melville: In the solace of the Truce of God, the Calumet has come
Herman Melville: Minister of the Prince of Peace serving the God of War
Herman Melville: Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend
Herman Melville: Trophies of Peace
Herman Melville: War-pits and rattraps. Soldier sold to the army as Faust sold himself to the devil.
Herman Melville: When shall the time come, how much longer will God postpone it?
H.L. Mencken: New wars will bring about an unparalleled butchery of men
Thomas Merton: Simone Weil and why nations go to war
Lillian Rozell Messenger: Seeking a new world of peace
Lillian Rozell Messenger: Why this feast of shells each day, the fury, blood and wail of war?
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Conscientious Objector
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Lament
Emily Huntington Miller: Hymn of Peace
Joaquin Miller: The People’s Song of Peace
Ruth Comfort Mitchell: He Went for a Soldier
Harriet Monroe: Over me wash the seas of war
William Vaughn Moody: Bullet’s scream went wide of its mark to its homeland’s heart
Marianne Moore: I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war
Angela Morgan: Selections on war and peace
Angela Morgan: For the moment’s red renown. Battle Cry of the Mothers.
Angela Morgan: God prays for peace
Angela Morgan: In Spite of War
Angela Morgan: Mothers “Go, fashion the Future’s laws that war shall be no more”
Angela Morgan: Tell us the battlefields have lied, that men are still immaculate
Angela Morgan: War! Shall you be our lover? War! Shall you be our mate?
Angela Morgan: Whether to yield in meekness to War’s devouring curse
Christopher Morley: Humanity’s most beautiful gift, Peace
Christopher Morley: No enthusiasm for hymns of hate
Christopher Morley: War, how many aeons lost
Jean Lewis Morris: A Patriot I!
Philip Stafford Moxom: The Palace of Peace
George Jean Nathan: Clarence Darrow on the spurious and futile heroism of war
Robert Nathan: Harder to make peace than to make war
Grace Fallow Norton: O I have heard the drums beat for war!
Sara Louisa Oberholtzer: The dawn of peace is breaking!
Eugene O’Neill: The hell that follows war
Frances Sargent Osgood: Peace and the olive branch
Josephine Preston Peabody: Harvest Moon
David Graham Phillips: Captains of industry, industrial warfare, marauders and renegade generals
David Graham Phillips: Hate war and fightin’ and money grabbin’
John Pierpont: Not on the Battle-Field
Edgar Allan Poe: The Valley of Unrest
Ernest Poole: Apply for death certificates here. War’s house of death.
Ernest Poole: War cuts off the past from the future
Ernest Poole: War was the fashion. War was a pageant, a thing of romance.
Frank C. Reighter: Victim of War’s murd’rous tyranny
Elmer Rice: The expediency of choosing the right side in a war
Charles Richardson: The Dawn of Peace
James Whitcomb Riley: Sang! sang on! sang hate – sang war –
E. Merrill Root: Drill, like sheep with wolves’ fangs, meek to kill
E. Merrill Root: Military drill. Murder’s witless marionettes.
Rick Rozoff: Mars, only Olympian whose veins flow not with ichor
Edwin L. Sabin: Where Will the War be Next?
Edgar Saltus: Soldiers and no farmers; imperial sterility…and demise
Francis Saltus Saltus: Selections on peace and war
Francis Saltus Saltus: Deem you one ambitious whose subjects bleed and perish on a field?
Francis Saltus Saltus: If we saw but a century of peace
Francis Saltus Saltus: Peace to see our Love and Law arrived to witness cruel War
Francis Saltus Saltus: Thy theme was one of utter peace
Francis Saltus Saltus: The wind favors poets over conquerors
Carl Sandburg: Selections on war
Carl Sandburg: The grass grows over Austerlitz and Waterloo
Carl Sandburg: A spider will weave a web over discarded weapons
Carl Sandburg: What it costs to move two buttons one inch on the war map
George Santayana: Selections on war
George Santayana on war and militarism
George Santayana: Epicurus and the utter hatred of war
George Santayana: Fatal wars: equally needless, equally murderous
George Santayana: His parents’ admonitions against war
George Santayana: Only the dead have seen the end of war
George Santayana: Slaughter by the indistinguishable million
George Santayana: Such blind battles ought not to be our battles
George Santayana: Wars prove the world has turned its back on reason
George Santayana: We want peace and make war
Mary McDermott Santley: The serene light of peace to all mankind
Lawrence Schoonover: Accursed powder
Lawrence Schoonover: An entire nation praying for peace at one time
Clinton Scollard: Selections on war and peace
Clinton Scollard: Can mankind win to heights of peace and perfect amity?
Clinton Scollard: The Carnival of war
Clinton Scollard: Mars’ mad and holocaustal rite
Clinton Scollard: The Night Sowers
Clinton Scollard: Prayer: bid this reign of hate and horror end!
Clinton Scollard: Sunset Trees
Clinton Scollard: The Vale of Shadows
Clinton Scollard: The Watcher by the Tower
Clinton Scollard: The Winds of God
Kate Brownlee Sherwood: This one soft whisper – Peace
Robert Sherwood: War is essentially a false, hideous mistake
Lydia Sigourney: Peace was the song the angels sang
Louise Morgan Sill: I am the Hell-god, War!
Upton Sinclair: Selections on war
Upton Sinclair: After war, the color revolution cleanup
Upton Sinclair: A banker’s post-war nightmare
Upton Sinclair: Decade of national cynicism, corruption followed “war for democracy”
Upton Sinclair: Gigantic stir of war preparation for global territorial aggrandizement
Upton Sinclair: How wars start, how they can be prevented
Upton Sinclair: The Juggernaut of war flattens out all opposition
Upton Sinclair: New Lysistratas: Women must refuse to have babies until men stop killing
Upton Sinclair: The plea of Nicola Sacco, “What is war?”
Upton Sinclair: Spending several times as much money to prepare for an even greater war to end war
Upton Sinclair: Using all the machinery and brains of civilization to slaughter one another
Upton Sinclair: The war system, bankers recouping the costs of war propaganda
Upton Sinclair: War’s one-sided boost to the economy
Upton Sinclair: What it costs a woman to keep the world at war
Upton Sinclair: World war as a business enterprise
Ina Duvall Singleton: The Women’s Litany
Rembert G. Smith: O bid the wars of men to cease
Thorne Smith: Make statues of war’s wholesale butchers before they strike
Fanny Bixby Spencer: The shame of the cannonade
Fanny Bixby Spencer: Will your son kill mine or will mine kill yours?
George Sterling: To the War-Lords
George Sterling: War past, present, future
Arthur E. Stilwell: The Day of Peace
Margaret Stineback: The Unknown Soldier
Frank Stockton: Battles of annihilation, the Anglo-American War Syndicate
Frank Stockton: The Great War Syndicate: “On to Canada!”
Sara Teasdale: Dusk in War Time
Sara Teasdale: Spring in War-Time
Edith Matilda Thomas: Air war: They are not humans.
Edith Matilda Thomas: The Altar of Moloch
Edith Matilda Thomas: The Flag
Henry David Thoreau: It is commonly said that history is a chronicle of war
Henry David Thoreau: Taxes enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood
Henry David Thoreau: War belies the claim that civilization is making rapid progress
Eunice Tietjens: Children of War
Katrina Trask: Selections on war and peace
Katrina Trask: After the Battle
Katrina Trask: Civilized warfare
Katrina Trask: A dialogue on God and war
Katrina Trask: The Logic of War
Katrina Trask: The Statue of Peace
Lucia Trent: Breed, little mothers, breed for the war lords who slaughter your sons
Nancy Byrd Turner: Let Us Have Peace
Mark Twain: To the Person Sitting in Darkness
Mark Twain: The basest type of patriotism: support for war and imperialism
Mark Twain: The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date)
Mark Twain: Cain and mankind’s legacy of war
Mark Twain: Epitome of war, the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity
Mark Twain: Grotesque self-deception of war
Mark Twain: Maxims on battleships and statesmanship
Mark Twain: Only dead men dare tell the whole truth about war
Mark Twain: Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War
Mark Twain: An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war
Mark Twain on Western military threat to China: I am a Boxer
Mark Twain: Cecil Rhodes and the civilizing mission: He wants the earth and wants it for his own
Louis Untermeyer: Daybreak after war
Henry van Dyke: Stain Not the Sky
Thorstein Veblen: Habituation to war entails a body of predatory habits of thought
Gore Vidal: Navies, colonies, presidents, wars
Louise B. Waite: Let There Be Peace
Maurice C. Waugh: A Plea for Peace
Nathanael West: Selections on war
Nathanael West: Every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition
Nathanael West: The noble motives, the noble methods of war
Nathanael West: Not their fault, they thought they had bombed a hospital
Nathanael West: One live recruit is better than a dozen dead veterans
Nathanael West: They haven’t the proper military slant
Phillis Wheatley: From every tongue celestial Peace resounds
Robert Whitaker: Whence Cometh War?
Walt Whitman: Away with themes of war! away with war itself!
Anna M. Whitney: The Call for Peace
John Greenleaf Whittier: Selections on peace and war
John Greenleaf Whittier: Disarmament
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Gospel of Christ is peace, not war, and love, not hatred
John Greenleaf Whittier: If this be Peace, pray what is War?
John Greenleaf Whittier: Nobler than the sword’s shall be the sickle’s accolade
John Greenleaf Whittier: The Peace Convention at Brussels
John Greenleaf Whittier: The stormy clangor of wild war music o’er the earth shall cease
Margaret Widdemer: Men have to wage world-wars, children are left to die
Margaret Widdemer: A Mother to the War-Makers
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Selections on peace and war
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The Paean of Peace
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: A Plea To Peace
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: What We Need
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: When the Regiment Came Back
Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Women and War
Thomas Wolfe: His imperial country at war, possessed of the inspiration for murder
Thomas Wolfe: Santimony and cant of war
Clement Wood: Seedtime and harvest
Clement Wood: Victory – Without Peace
George Edward Woodberry: American I am; would wars were done
For peace, against war: literary selections 
Reblogged this on I Ain't Marchin' Anymore and commented:
A useful assortment,with an important slice of Bierce and Twain….
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