Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham LincolnI know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert EinsteinGod created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark TwainThere was never a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin FranklinUntil the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - everywhere is war!
Bob MarleyUntil the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war.
Bob MarleyWar is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBe at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin FranklinPeace above all things is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew JacksonIf you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Sun TzuAllow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham LincolnCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise PascalIf we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
Sun TzuHence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself your victory will not stand in doubt, if you now Heaven and you know Earth you may make your victory complete.
Sun TzuThe quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George OrwellA just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war
Francis BaconKnow thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun TzuWars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin FranklinThe most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas JeffersonA friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham LincolnSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellHistory teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald ReaganI hate war, as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact, to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun TzuPolitics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillIt is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert EinsteinThe real war will never get in the books.
Walt WhitmanIn modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest HemingwayThoughtless dilettante or purblind wordlings sometimes ask us "What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?" To this I answer "If we left off fighting you would soon find out".
Winston ChurchillMan has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel New York wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.
Douglas AdamsTo delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
George SantayanaAmericans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
George S. PattonLife is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.
Marcus AureliusIt is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Thomas PaineThat until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race - Dis a war.
Bob MarleyNo protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de TocquevilleNo matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham LincolnIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnWar is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Thomas CarlyleThis 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.
Virginia WoolfOnce the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WellsAll wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin FranklinWar is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo TolstoyAs long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Oscar WildeThe British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard ShawOnce 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.
Ernest HemingwayWars are not won by evacuations.
Winston ChurchillYou can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will RogersUnconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
John F. KennedySome have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. BushWe prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. KennedyMy grandfather had the highest regard for your grandfather as a wartime leader
Winston ChurchillIf we desire to avoid insult we must be able to repel it, if we desire to secure peace one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity it must be known that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonWar grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon HillSerious sport is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellOne of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.See that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.
Michelle ObamaOur country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthurNow let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt RomneySometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl SandburgThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. RooseveltFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority just cause right motive.
Ernest HemingwayThe obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty not coddle the world precipitating no-win wars while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron PaulHe who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas PaineThere is no merit in putting off a war for a year if when it comes it is far worse or much harder to win.
Winston ChurchillI 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul SartreI abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
Thomas JeffersonThere is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress the other side more or less for reaction.
George OrwellLife is a struggle but not a warfare.
John BurroughsThe isles of Greece the isles of Greece! / Where burning Sappho loved and sung / Where grew the arts of war and peace / Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! / Eternal summer gilds them yet / But all except their sun is set.
Lord ByronWar is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Desiderius ErasmusPeople ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly if I wanted to I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. RowlingSometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Donald TrumpIt 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 JeffersonLove 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.
James Arthur BaldwinA prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston ChurchillWar's a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.
Lord ByronAll those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de TocquevilleIt is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas JeffersonWar war is still the cry `War even to the knife!'
Lord ByronWars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador DaliThe constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George WashingtonWar is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew JacksonThe connection between dress and war is not far to seek, your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia WoolfWhen you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston ChurchillThe essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellAnother term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron PaulEvery 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 OrwellEach generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars instead of carrying them on at the expense of other generations.
James MadisonWar 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.
Niccolo MachiavelliThis war is not about slavery.
Robert E. LeeWar is just when it is necessary, arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolo MachiavelliAll war is based on deception.
Sun TzuIn war you win or lose live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
Douglas MacArthurWar 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.
James MadisonThe executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James MadisonThere's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.
Ron PaulIf we don't end war war will end us.
H. G. WellsI venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund BurkeI can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltI'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Lyndon B. JohnsonBusiness is a combination of war and sport.
Andre MauroisOnly the dead have seen the end of the war.
George SantayanaThe deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. BushWar contains so much folly as well as wickedness that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James MadisonYou and I must take care not to lose the next war.
Winston ChurchillWith those attacks the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
George W. BushThe republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas JeffersonSectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John SteinbeckWe should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald ReaganLIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn, the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting, cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.
Sai BabaDon't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillThat's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.
Paul RyanCards are war in disguise of a sport.
Charles LambWe've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq we have met our responsibility. Now it's time to turn the page.
Barack ObamaIt made me feel good yeah because we've been through so many wars together. And it feels good to kind of be able to enjoy ... the sweetness of it. And now to be able to move on for the organization to move on the city to move on and to focus on building this team (I) wish him all the best with his team down on South Beach.
Kobe BryantWhether you come back by page or by the big screen Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. Rowling