As we endure the sad milestone of 4,000 dead American soldiers and the sadder 5th anniversary of a horrible clusterfuck of a war, I thought I’d include several quotes about war:

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
— Albert Einstein, physicist (1879-1955)

The first casualty of war is truth.
— Rudyard Kipling, author (1865-1936)

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president (1890-1969)

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
— Bertrand Russell, writer, philosopher, historian, mathematician (1872-1970)

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
— Thomas Mann, writer (1875-1955)

A nation that continues year and year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
— Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights activist (1929-1968)