- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
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- War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
- Georges Clemenceau
French politician (1841 - 1929)
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- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
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- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)
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