There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

President Kennedy lived 1917-1963. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate, continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes...can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

War remains the decisive human failure.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

All mankind...being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

Speaking about his experience when he and June Carter went to Vietnam to entertain the troups in 1969. from 'Cash: The Autobiography,' Harper Collins, page 218

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

There is but one evil, war. All the other proclaimed evils such as hate, greed, descrimination, and jealousy are only sub-categories of it.

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Narosky is an Argentinian writer and musician. (From 'The Anti-War Quote Book,' Quirk Books, Ed. by Eric Groves Sr.)