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.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

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.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

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.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

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.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

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.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

For me, education was power.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

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

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

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.

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.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

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

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

I don’t think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev’s willingness to accept Kennedy’s hegemonic demands.