"Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and a pretense of reluctance." ~George Bernard Shaw

"The coward threatens when he is safe." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goeth

"Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball." ~Charles V of France

"When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." ~H.L. Menken

"The terrorist is the one with the small bomb." ~ Brendan Behan

"Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant." ~C.L. Montague

"All the gods are dead except the god of war." ~Eldridge Cleaver

"War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement." ~James Madison

"My country right or wrong'" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~C.K. Chesterton

"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."~Senator Robert M. La Follette