“Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
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“Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.”
“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”
“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.”
“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”
“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!”
“Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.”
“Morality is contraband in war.”
“Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.”