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I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.