"War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind." - Thomas Jefferson
"Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is their interest to go to war." - Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." - James Madison
"There was never a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin
"Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will." - James Monroe
"The fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace." - Alexander Hamilton
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." - George Washington
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