"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. ~ Robert E. Lee - Class of 1829
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell." ~ William T. Sherman - Class of 1840
"Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead." ~ Omar N. Bradley - Class of 1915
To all those who consider, or enter into, war so glibly: Go fuck yourselves. Quotes taken from the West Pont Graduates Against the War website. Great thanks to the Angry Old Broad for steering me there.
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