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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.