No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. — Rodrigue Tremblay Copy Share Image
Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns… — Kevin Benderman Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself. — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate it when they say, �He gave his life for his country.� They don�t die for the honor and glory of… — Gene La Rocque Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total...… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens... — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness… — Stefan Halper Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny,… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many. — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
With no notice to the American people...this country entered the war...Stranger than the fact was the passive acceptance of it. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
