You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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.
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.
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.
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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