• "In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening." - Gene Tierney Tweet
• "This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty." - Maxine Waters Tweet
• "The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai." - J. G. Ballard Tweet
• "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." - Douglas MacArthur Tweet
• "The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'" - Conan O'Brien Tweet
• "I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy." - William Tecumseh Sherman Tweet
• "War is the province of danger." - Karl Von Clausewitz Tweet
• "Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first." - William Glasser Tweet
• "How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print." - Karl Kraus Tweet
• "For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war." - Barbara Boxer Tweet