Beginning Quote by George William Norris

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit…

— Joschka Fischer

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

— Anne Michaels

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we…

— Woodrow Wilson

We were always dead against the war.

— Bertie Ahern

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

— Eamon de Valera

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

— Ogden Nash

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

— Robert Aumann

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities.

— Joschka Fischer

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

— Frank Chodorov

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

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

Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it. There would…

— Marie Van Vorst