I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.
Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.
We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic.
War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.
War is the Health of the State.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.
There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
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