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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
— George Washington
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
— Malala Yousafzai
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.
— Monica Crowley
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
— Chelsea Clinton
The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
— Holly Near
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
— John Tyler
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
— Sun Tzu
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
— Hillary Clinton
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
— Shel Silverstein
Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move. 
— Sun Tzu
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
— Harlan Coben
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
— Immanuel Kant
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
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren't shy about what they don't like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
— Donella Meadows
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
— Robert E. Lee
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
— Eric Stoltz
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
In time of war the laws are silent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people.
— Thurston Clarke
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
— Stephen Ambrose
Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
— Saul David
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
— George S. Patton
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
— Aasif Mandvi
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
— Barack Obama
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
— Judy Biggert
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
— Hans Kung
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.
— Juan Williams
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.
— Al Franken
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
— George Santayana
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
— John Stuart Mill
One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.
— George H. W. Bush
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
— Amelia Earhart
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
— Omar N. Bradley
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
— Kin Hubbard
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
— Jack Kemp
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
— Noah Feldman
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
— Rand Paul
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
— Ida Tarbell
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
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
— Christian Dior
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
— Jefferson Davis
Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
— Meir Kahane
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. 
— Andrew Jackson
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
— Thomas Hobbes
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
— Julie Burchill
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
— Alfred Nobel
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
— John Glenn
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
— Adam Hochschild
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
— Yasser Arafat
The Cold War is over but Cold War thinking survives.
— Joseph Rotblat
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
— Barry McCaffrey
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
— Walter Dean Myers
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
— Muqtada al Sadr
In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
— Charles Lindbergh
It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.
— Che Guevara
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
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. 
— Ernest Hemingway
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
— William McKinley
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
— H. L. Mencken
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
— Stephen Hawking
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
— Douglas MacArthur
The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition. 
— Nancy Pelosi
It is far easier to make war than peace.
— Georges Clemenceau
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
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
— Belva Lockwood
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
— George C. Marshall
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, or in that I have had for war; try, on the contrary, to be at peace with your neighbors.
— Louis XIV
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.
— James Cagney
Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.
— Ellen Tauscher
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
— Charles de Montesquieu
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— Albert Einstein
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
— Douglas MacArthur
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
— George Orwell
War is a defeat for humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
All warfare is based on deception.
— Unknown
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
— Bernie Sanders
The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.
— Larry Elder
Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.
— Asghar Farhadi
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
— William McKinley
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
— Henry Kissinger
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
A hospital alone shows what war is.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.
— Hernan Cortes
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. 
— Carl von Clausewitz
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
— Albert Camus
The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
— Douglas Haig
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.
— L. Neil Smith
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
— Tony Blair
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
— Patty Jenkins
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
— Leo Tolstoy
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
— Benito Mussolini
Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. 
— Otto von Bismarck
To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
— Alfred Adler
The sinews of war are infinite money.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
— Robert M. La Follette
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
People always make war when they say they love peace.
— D. H. Lawrence
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
— Curtis LeMay
Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.
— Mel Carnahan
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
— Daniel Boone
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
— Wilfred Burchett
War is failure of diplomacy.
— John Dingell
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
— William Westmoreland
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
— Mao Zedong
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
— Lester B. Pearson
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
— Sun Tzu
And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
— Dick Gregory
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
— Gary Johnson
I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
— Sam Phillips
I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
— Brad Pitt
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
— Chris Kyle
I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
— Chris Kyle
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
— Karl Marlantes
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
— Ambrose Bierce
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
— George S. Patton
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
— Conan O'Brien
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
— Martin Van Creveld
My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. 
— Georges Clemenceau
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
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
— Noam Chomsky
War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
— Smedley Butler
'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
— Samuel Adams
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
— Frank Whittle
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.
— Che Guevara
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
— Ellen G. White
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
— George Orwell
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
— Bayard Rustin
The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't. 
— Arthur L. Herman
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.
— Michael Moore
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
— Isoroku Yamamoto
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
— Nam June Paik
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
— Benjamin Franklin
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
— William Hazlitt
During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
— Ben Shapiro
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
— Adrienne Rich
Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
— David Zabel
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
— Tom Brokaw
Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.
— Nia Vardalos
The sacrifices in the war against terrorism reflect complete and strong determination of Pakistan against terrorism.
— Shehbaz Sharif
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
— Arthur Henderson
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
— Lester B. Pearson
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
— Douglas MacArthur
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
— Barack Obama
My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
— Lady Gregory
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
— Amity Shlaes
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
— Margaret Thatcher
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
— Benjamin Franklin
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
— Wilfred Owen
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
— Bertrand Russell
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
— Francois Fenelon
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
— Omar N. Bradley
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
— Omar N. Bradley
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
— George McGovern
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
— George Orwell
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
War remains the decisive human failure.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
An army marches on its stomach.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
— Robert E. Lee
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
— Robert E. Lee
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
— Salvador Dali
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
— Thomas A. Edison
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
— Thomas Jefferson
It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. 
— Voltaire
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
— Ludwig von Mises
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
— H. L. Mencken
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
— Neville Chamberlain
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
— Albert Einstein
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
— Bonnie Bassler
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
— Otto Dix
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
— Ishmael Beah
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
— Chester W. Nimitz
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
When I was a young boy, during the aftermath of World War II, Germany was broken and in ruins. Many people were hungry, sick, and dying. I remember well the humanitarian shipments of food and clothing that came from the Church in Salt Lake City.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
— Baruch Spinoza
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
— John F. Kennedy
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The war against terrorism is terrorism.
— Woody Harrelson
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
— Ernie Pyle
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
— Benito Mussolini
Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War.
— Mary Landrieu
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
— Victor Hugo
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
— Queen Elizabeth II
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
— Rufus Wainwright
The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.
— Mike Pence
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
— John le Carre
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
— John Doolittle
When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
— Bashar al-Assad
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
— H. Rap Brown
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
— Timothy Garton Ash
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
— Jodie Foster
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
— Andrew Jackson
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
— Warren Buffett
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
— George McGovern
Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.
— Kim Jong-un
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
— Red Cloud
Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.
— Rick Atkinson
The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
— Nikola Tesla
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.
— David Morrell
As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
— Charles B. Rangel
It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.
— Martin Seligman
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
— Pankaj Mishra
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.
— John C. Calhoun
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
— Chung Mong-joon
Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.
— Peter L. Bergen
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
— Jeannette Rankin
We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
— Oliver Stone
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
— Winston Churchill
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
— Sam Ervin
Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.
— John W. Vessey, Jr.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
— Henry Kissinger
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
— Golda Meir
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
— Thomas Jefferson
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
— John Lennon
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
— Woody Allen
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
— H. G. Wells
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
— Douglas MacArthur
In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace. 
— James Thomson
Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
— John Foster Dulles
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl von Clausewitz
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
— Marshall McLuhan
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
— William Halsey
In time of peace prepare for war.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
— Jacques Chirac
All oppression creates a state of war.
— Simone de Beauvoir
All the gods are dead except the god of war.
— Eldridge Cleaver
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
— John Stuart Mill
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
— John McCain
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
— Walter F. Mondale
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
— Jimmy Doolittle
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
— Michael Moore
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
— A. J. P. Taylor
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
— Alfred Adler
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
— Douglas MacArthur
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
— George Orwell
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
— Herbert Hoover
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.
— Claus von Stauffenberg
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
— Paul Rodriguez
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.
— Louis Farrakhan
In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
— Phyllis Schlafly
When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
— Rita Moreno
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.
— Eric San
Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
— Curtis LeMay
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
— Michael Chabon
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
— Julie Bowen
If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.
— Jim Otto
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
— Hideki Tojo
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
— Gustav Stresemann
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
— John Linder
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
— Robert Capa
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
— Bianca Jagger
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
— Moustapha Akkad
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
— Kate Adie
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
— Marvin Gaye
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
— William Westmoreland
Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
— George Soros
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
— Barack Obama
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
— Will Durant
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
— Carl von Clausewitz
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
— Oswald Spengler
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
— William S. Burroughs
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
— Thucydides