3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul What is not conservative about saying, ‘Don’t go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?’
3 December 2020 Will Rogers You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne I’m old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
3 December 2020 Dennis Kucinich War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
3 December 2020 Howard Zinn 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.
3 December 2020 Daryn Kagan Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.
3 December 2020 George Orwell To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
3 December 2020 Robert Capa For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
3 December 2020 Walter Mosley I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
3 December 2020 George McGovern People didn’t have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
3 December 2020 James Madison War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
3 December 2020 Marjane Satrapi The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
3 December 2020 Georges Clemenceau I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
3 December 2020 John Bolton People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it’s assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
3 December 2020 John Salazar How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won’t take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham Detainee policy in this war is hard, it’s complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
3 December 2020 John Steinbeck Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
