We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

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.

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

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

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

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.

A siege is an act of war.

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.

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.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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.

People like to talk about war.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

War is what happens when language fails.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

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.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

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

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

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

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

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

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

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

The army teaches boys to think like men.

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

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

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.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.