It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of 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.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is the province of danger.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society… shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

Laws are silent in time of war.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

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.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

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.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

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.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

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.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.