I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.