Richard M. Nixon

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."

Herbert V. Prochnow

"All war is deception."

Sun Tzu

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

Francois Fenelon

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?"

Gregory Clark

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

David G. Farragut

"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."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals."

Colman McCarthy

"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace."

Charles Sumner

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

Albert Einstein

"I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together."

Ronald Reagan

"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."

William Westmoreland

"I have never advocated war except as a means of peace."

Ulysses S. Grant

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

John Paul Jones

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

George McGovern

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"

Joan Baez

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

H. G. Wells

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."

Ernest Hemingway

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

Jose Narosky

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

Voltaire

"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."

Fred Woodworth

"John 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."

Isaac Asimov