If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
One more such victory and we are undone.
During war, the laws are silent.
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.
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