Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

War is a contagion.