The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.
We don't want wars even when we win.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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