In War, As It Is

If I Had One More Division Like This First Marine Division I Could Win This War.

Our Government Has Kept Us In A Perpetual State Of Fear - Kept Us In A Continuous Stampede Of Patriotic Fervor - With The Cry Of Grave National Emergency. Always There Has Been Some Terrible Evil At Home Or Some Monstrous Foreign Power That Was Going To Gobble Us Up If We Did Not Blindly Rally Behind It By Furnishing The Exorbitant Funds Demanded. Yet, In Retrospect, These Disasters Seem Never To Have Happened, Seem Never To Have Been Quite Real.

I Know War As Few Other Men Now Living Know It, And Nothing To Me Is More Revolting. I Have Long Advocated Its Complete Abolition, As Its Very Destructiveness On Both Friend And Foe Has Rendered It Useless As A Means Of Settling International Disputes... But Once War Is Forced Upon Us, There Is No Other Alternative Than To Apply Every Available Means To Bring It To A Swift End.

In War There Is No Substitute For Victory.

Men Will Not Fight And Die Without Knowing What They Are Fighting And Dying For.