"It is well that war is so terrible, or we
should grow too fond of it."
~ Robert E. Lee
"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
"You
can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill
you in a new way."
~
"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."
~ Sir Winston Churchill
"The
way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts."
~ Omar Bradley, Speech to
"Gentlemen.
You can't fight in here. This is the War Room"
~ President
Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove, (1964)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil.
But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not
learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
~ President Jimmy Carter
"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, Autobiography (1977)