Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope

If you go to war pray once if you go on a sea journey pray twice but pray three times if you are going to be married

The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one

Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I was feeling into words. Tonight, I'd like to let you know, that even before I met John Kerry, he was my brother. Even before I knew John Kerry, he was my friend. Even before I spoke with John Kerry, he gave me hope

History will judge the invasion of Iraq one of the greatest foreign policy misadventures of all time

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander

It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut