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"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." -- General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully-equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." -- President Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), address to American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953.
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"War is just a racket.... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I spent 33 years and four months in active military service, and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service." -- Retired Marine General Smedley Butler (1881-1940), two-time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, in a 1933 speech.
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"You can't say civilization doesn't advance.... In every war they kill you a new way." -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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"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 to both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes." -- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), farewell speech to Congress, April 19, 1951
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"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake." -- Rep. Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973), from her biography, First Lady in Congress, 1974
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"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that follow the aftermath of war." -- President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
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"War never slays a bad man in its course, but the good always.... War loves to prey upon the young." -- Sophocles (c. 496-406 BCE)
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