I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
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