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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

I think that Americans - and this is not true just now, but over the years - are not fundamentally opposed to war. They're fundamentally opposed to losing wars.