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.

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

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

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

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

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Law is always better than war.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

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.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

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.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

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

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

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

The word ‚racism‘ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‚racist.‘

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.

Laws are silent in time of war.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other ‚studies‘ courses.

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.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.