Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.