“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.”
War is the failure of every other option. These quotes do not glorify conflict — they examine its causes, costs, and consequences through the eyes of soldiers, leaders, pacifists, and survivors who understand what is really at stake.
“This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.”
“It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.”
“The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.”
“We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.”
“I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.”
“Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.”
“On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.”
“This war is not about slavery.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.”
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
“We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.”
“The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.”
“I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.”
“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.”
“I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.”