“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”
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“I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.”
“Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.”
“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.”
“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.”
“What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.”
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.”
“This war is not about slavery.”
“In war there is no substitute for victory.”
“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.”
“All oppression creates a state of war.”
“Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
“I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.”
“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
“It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
“Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.”
“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'”
“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.”
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.”
“Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.”