Quotes on Antiwar

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.