The mother's battle for her child with sickness with poverty with war with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle waged in love and in the passion for survival.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me some others I have to send out out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive but that's just the way it is.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people war means maiming people war means families left without fathers and mothers.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

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

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.

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.

What is not conservative about saying 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

The truth is if anyone saw my home life I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.