“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”

“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them. ”

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ”

“I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.”

“Men fight wars. Women win them.”

“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”