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.

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.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

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

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

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.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

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.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

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.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The honor of a nation is its life.

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

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.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

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

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

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.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.