Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by read more

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.