Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

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

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.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Law is always better than war.

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

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

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

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

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

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.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

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.

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

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

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

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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.

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.

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

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

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

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

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.

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

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.