At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.

Andrew Greely is a columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. You can read his articles at http://www.suntimes.com/index/greeley.html

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

(quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...

Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician from Berkeley, CA. You can read his articles at www.lewrockwell.com

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

Randolph (1889-1979) was an African American civil rights leader. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Hoppe (1925-2000) was an American writer. (quote from 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' edited Eric Groves, Sr., pub. Quirk Books, 2008)

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Mrs. Bush spoke these words on ABC's "Good Morning America," March 18, 2003.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Speaking to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785.

I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.