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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant
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.
Will Rogers
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
Barack Obama
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.But had daylight lasted one hour longer, Stark reported later, we should have taken the whole body of them.
General John Stark, said before
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa
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.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
Patty Hearst
No b-----d ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb b-----d die for his country.
George S. Patton
