Burton K. Wheeler Quotes

A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damned near killed the country.

Politicians start wars, but it's young men who wash themselves with blood because of the politicians' shortsightedness.

You must come into the war if you are to survive.

I do not want to send anybody else's child to war.

We often fight wars with our young.

I like war.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

War is never cheap or easy.

Tomorrow the war will start, There will be widows. There will be orphans. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.