Clear Quote by James Baker

What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The…

— J. F. C. Fuller

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

— Anonymous

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

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

Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be…

— Emil Ludwig

“Although there are many differences between America and post–World War I Germany, history has some economic lessons to teach us. Remember that after World…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from…

— Arthur Henderson

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

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'…

— Milton Mayer

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

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower