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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.