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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
Allan Massie
The emotional security and political stability in this country entitle us to be a nuclear power.
Sir Ronald Mason
There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.
John Cory
If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
Dennis Prager
When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern
Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war they gave a large-scale refutation of this charge, and the vote was given to them for their share in the bloody
Bertrand Russell
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
Ernest Hemingway
There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.
Victor Hugo
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
Iain Duncan Smith
Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.
Terry Pratchett
Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew Jackson
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Sarah Palin
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
Margot Asquith
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Jack Kemp
War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?
Gerhard Kocher
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
Carroll Quigley
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
George Galloway
