Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

A siege is an act of war.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

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

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

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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.

Law is always better than war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

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.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

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.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

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.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

War is the business of barbarians.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?