Quotes in War

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.

But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.