Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
Cicero
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
Excellent quotes!!
Let me add one more I like: “War is a racket” General Smedley Butler.