War is a racket.

— General Smedley Butler

Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant.

— C.L. Montague

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

— Voltaire

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

— Eldridge Cleaver

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

— Brendan Behan

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.

— James Madison

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

— Voltaire

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

— Charles V of France

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

— Peter Ustinov

My country right or wrong is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober.

C.K. Chesterton

There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.

— Sun Tzu

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretense of reluctance.

— George Bernard Shaw

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

— Thomas Pynchon

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

— Thomas Jefferson

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

— Sigmund Freud

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another...after the war is on.

— Robert LaFollette