Consent Quote by Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in…

— William Westmoreland

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

— Townsend Harris

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

— George W. Bush

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

— Robert E. Lee

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

— H. G. Wells

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

— Clare Short

It was not war, it was murder.

— Daniel Harvey Hill

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not…

— George William Norris

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

— Frank Chodorov

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

— Scilla Elworthy

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been…

— Abraham Lincoln