"There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it."

"Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life."

"Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst."

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."

"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash."

"You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions"