Quotes by Soldiers
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower 
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
--Douglas MacArthur
War is cruelty and you cannot refine it.
--William Tecumseh Sherman
War is a racket.
--Smedley Butler
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
--Colin Powell
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
--Colin Powell
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
--Douglas MacArthur
Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs --to kill people and to destroy.
--Thomas S. Power
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
--William Halsey
War settles nothing.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our fight is not with the Iraqi people, nor is it with members of the Iraqi army who choose to surrender. While we will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist, we will treat all others with decency, demonstrating chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have endured a lifetime under Saddam's oppression.
--James Mattis
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
--Smedley Butler
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
--Douglas MacArthur
We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly.
--George C. Marshall
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.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
--William Westmoreland
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
--Omar N. Bradley
Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
--Sir John Fisher
I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
--Douglas MacArthur
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower