Unnecessary War Quotes

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.