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.
Fred Woodworth

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.
Vanessa Kerry

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.
Isaac Asimov

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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman