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

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

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.

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

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

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

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there’s a good English phrase for it – cold war.

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

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.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves.

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 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 we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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

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.

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

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

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

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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.

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

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

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.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

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

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Morality is contraband in war.

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.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

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.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In time of war the laws are silent.

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.

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

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.