“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
“War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.”
“The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.”
“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
“War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.”
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.”
“If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.”
“Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.”
“Wars are carried out by large organizations; Peace is brought one by one.”
“War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.”
“I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.”
“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
“We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.”
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
“War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.”
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”
“To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.”
“The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.”
“O can't you see, brother -- Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.”
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”
“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
“Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.”
“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
“There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.”
“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”