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

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

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

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.

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

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

America means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

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

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.

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

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.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

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.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

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

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.

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 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.

War is the business of barbarians.

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.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

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.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

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

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Organized murder is war, and though we demonstrate against a particular war, the nuclear, or any other kind of war, we have never demonstrated against war.

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.

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

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.

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?

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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.

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

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

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

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

An unjust peace is better than a just 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.

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 is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

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

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