Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.