This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.