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.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
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.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.
People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.
Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.
A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.
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