To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

God ordered otherwise.

He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right.

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

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends; and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world: to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent's eye that charms to destroy.

Ez fer war, I call it murder- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that.

Ninepence a day fer killin' folks comes kind o' low fer murder.