You should be careful what you wish for as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives but others can have different agendas.

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession a war of independence no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

You know the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked and you made a living if you could and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference they say is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

This war differs from other wars in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people and must make old and young rich and poor feel the hard hand of war.

In war you win or lose live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress the other side more or less for reaction.

More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes though involving different methods are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.