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| In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. | | St. Thomas Aquinas | |
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| In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash. | | Douglas MacArthur | |
| In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. | | Winston Churchill | |
| It is a strange and long war, the war that violence is forever waging against truth. All the efforts of violence are powerless to weaken truth, and serve only to make it stronger. All the lights of truth are powerless to stop violence, and serve only | | Blaise Pascal | |
| It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized. | | Aristotle | |
| It is not known with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones | | Albert Einstein | |
| It is remarkable that soldiers by profession, men truly and unquestionably brave, seldom advise war but in cases of extreme necessity. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
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| Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
| More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
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| My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Now if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king who led them to it. | | William Shakespeare | |
| Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then | | Tom Lehrer | |
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| Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations), only then will our reeducation have succeeded | | Walter Lippman | |
