Quotes on Preventive War

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.