Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.
He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him
and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...
and help to slaughter strangers of his own species
who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel....
And in the intervals between campaigns
he washes the blood off his hands
and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"
- with his mouth.
~Mark Twain


Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
~Carl Sandburg


They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.
But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying.
You will die like a dog for no good reason.
~Ernest Hemmingway


Now your soul may belong to Jesus,
but your ass belongs to the Marine Corps.
~Full Metal Jacket


In glades they meet skull after skull
Where pine cones lay - the rusted gun,
Green shoes full of bones, the mouldering coat
And cuddled up skeleton;
And scores of such. Some start as in dreams,
And comrades lost bemoan;
By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged-
But the year and the Man were gone.
~Herman Melville (from "The Armies of the Wilderness")


Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes.
It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
For a nuclear disaster,
spread by winds and waters and fear,
could well engulf the great and the small,
the rich and the poor,
the committed and the uncommitted alike.
Mankind must put an end to war
or war will put an end to mankind.
~John F. Kennedy


I hate war for its consequences,
for the lies it lives on and propagates,
for the undying hatreds it arouses,
for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies,
and for the starvation that stalks after it.
I hate war,
and never again will I sanction or support another.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick


O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it.
~Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"


“In peace sons bury fathers,
but war violates the order of nature,
and fathers bury their sons.”
~Heroditus, Greek historian c. 484-425 B.C.


You can have all the advanced war methods you want,
but, after all,
nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to
have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
~Will Rogers


Let's kick their ass and get the Hell out of here.
~General George Armstrong Custer


To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president,
right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public.
~Theodore Roosevelt (1918)


If we let people see that kind of thing,
there would never again be any war.
~Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War




Bring it On!
~George W. Bush






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