"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

"I couldn't help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet.

"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way."

"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

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

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

"The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it."

"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"