"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."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
John F. Kennedy
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Henry A. Kissinger
"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."
Herbert Hoover
"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
Plato
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
Omar N. Bradley
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
Bertrand Russell
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."
Carl Sandburg
"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
Euripides
"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it."
Louis Simpson
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
John F. Kennedy
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman
"The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation."
George McGovern
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram Johnson
"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
William Westmoreland
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
Albert Einstein
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
Adolf Hitler
"The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
Omar N. Bradley
"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."
James Morrow
"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."
Henry Ellis
"There was never a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin