The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
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.
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.