Quotes on Unnecessary 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 must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

A man 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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.