It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.
It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
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