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

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
Ernest Hemingway

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 Hemingway

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams

Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor Roosevelt

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin Luther

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine