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“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.”

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Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?”

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Author:Sting

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, His Words and Vision

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.”

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Author:Ken Gillespie

“I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.”

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Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart