It is not any problem to start a war. That is the easiest thing in the world.

I do not want us to fight a war that no one ever meant to begin.

We want no wider war, as I have said repeatedly.

Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war

A good many of our sons have fought there, lived there, in war and in peace.

Now, this idea that there are three services and therefore you can save $3 billion by cutting $1 billion out of each and at the same time when a good many members make speeches which are very militant, which would suggest that the solution to our problems can be best obtained by war actions or warlike actions, it doesn't seem to me that we ought to be cutting our defenses at this time.

We are not satisfied with a so-called peace that is merely an interval between two wars.

I believe that under the circumstances existing at the time that war began, the war was necessary.

I believe that any time we begin to think of war as an inescapable event of some future time, that we have become completely pessimistic on the future of humanity.

I do want to point out there is a very, very long distance between a laboratory capacity or capability of doing something and making an instrument, a really efficient, effective instrument of war.

I came with the formations of war and all of the circumstances of war surrounded that journey at that time.

It was a tremendous privilege and a great change from the killing of war to turn your armies to saving human lives and human dignity.

Memorial Day each year serves as a solemn reminder of the scourge of war and its bitter aftermath of sorrow.

I have lost skirmishes before.

We do not believe that war is inevitable.

Ten years ago total war was no longer a threat but a tragic reality.

I believe that the best method for terminating the state of war with Germany would be by the enactment of appropriate legislation in advance of the issuance of a Presidential proclamation.

They are, indeed, the keystone of our protection against the destruction of another war and against the terrible weapons of this atomic age.