Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. Jackson 

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Lincoln 

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.  Roosevelt 

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Roosevelt  War is contagion.  

The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.  Truman 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Eisenhower 

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

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.  Johnson 

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children. Bush