What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder read more

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, read more

If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two
sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international
obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting
man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are
fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are
not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the
arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, read more

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. War settles nothing.

War is the science of destruction.

War is the science of destruction.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.