Quotes on Just War

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

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

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

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.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.