| "War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee |
| "I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones." »Albert Einstein |
| "I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." »Albert Einstein |
| "If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way." »Gurdjieff |
| "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one." »Agatha Christie |
| "One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'." »Winston Churchill |
| "I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came." »Jefferson Davis |
| "Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." »Isaac Asimov |
| "The Establishment center ... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster -- a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation." »George McGovern |
| "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man." »Lord William Beveridge |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi |
| "The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith." »John Foster Dulles |
| "Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." »Winston Churchill |
| "You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer |
| "I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war." »Barack Obama |
| "Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West |
| "Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth." »Ronald Reagan |
| "If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." »John Stuart Mill |
| "As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses." »Van Wyck Brooks |
| "For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business." »D. W. Brogan |
| "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." »Albert Einstein |
| "It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
