War Condemnation Quotes

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.