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

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

War is not a thing one wants.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.