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“I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

Source: Hemingway on War

“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.”

Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.”

“Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.”

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Author:Ellen Key

“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.”

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Author:Roseanne Barr

“I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”