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

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

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.

War is a contagion.

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.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.

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.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

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.

Life is warfare.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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.

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.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

A war is a horrible thing, but it’s also a unifier of countries.

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.

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.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

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

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.

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.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

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

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

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

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

We make war that we may live in peace.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

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

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

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

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

People like to talk about war.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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.

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

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.