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- For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
- Robert Capa on War
- For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
- Conrad Black on War
- For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
- Allen West on War
- For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
- Steven Spielberg on War
- For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza on War
- For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.
- Barbara Boxer on War
- For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
- John Milton on War
- Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
- Thomas Hobbes on War
- Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
- Julius Caesar on War
- Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
- Barack Obama on War
- Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
- Charles De Gaulle on War
- From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.
- Dick Cheney on War
- Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
- Theodore Roosevelt on War
- God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- John Donne on War
- God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
- Eamon De Valera on War
- God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
- Heraclitus on War
- Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on War
- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
- John Adams on War
- Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
- Conrad Black on War
- Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
- William S. Burroughs on War
- Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
- Oriana Fallaci on War
- He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
- Mario Puzo on War
- He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
- Thomas Paine on War
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein on War
- He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
- George Galloway on War
- Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.
- Jon Meacham on War
- Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.
- Marco Rubio on War
- Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
- Kevin O'Leary on War
- History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan on War
- How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
- John Salazar on War
- How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- Thomas Aquinas on War
- How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
- Karl Kraus on War
- Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
- Bianca Jagger on War
- However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
- Neville Chamberlain on War
- Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
- Pope John Paul II on War
- Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
- George W. Bush on War
- Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
- John Podhoretz on War
- I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson on War
- I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
- Tom Hiddleston on War
- I am against all war.
- Sophia Loren on War
- I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
- George Galloway on War
- I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill on War
- I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein on War
- I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.
- Robert Foster Bennett on War
- I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
- Bianca Jagger on War
- I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
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