Laws are silent in time of war.

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.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

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.

The rules are there for a reason.

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

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

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

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

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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.

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.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

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.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

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.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

People like to talk about war.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

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.

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

War is a contagion.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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.

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

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

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.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.