"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
"War makes thieves and peace hangs them."
"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
"War would end if the dead could return."
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars."
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."
"We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began."
"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."
"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"
"When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."
"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."
"If we don't end war, war will end us."
"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield."
"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."
"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."
"It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories."
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."