I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.