All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.
There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.