But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
War never accomplishes anything. It's never going to look good in the history books. People are never going to look back and think, 'He started a lot of wars; what a great leader he was!' That's not the way it works. God knows how many more of these things we're going to need before it starts to sink in.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.