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.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
Know the enemy and know yourself.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
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