War is just when it is necessary, arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Niccolo MachiavelliI can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor RooseveltThe republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas JeffersonNo one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
Winston ChurchillThroughout the 20th century the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
Ron PaulThe moral and constitutional 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 PaulThe Cold War isn't thawing, it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping, it is as always plotting scheming working fighting.
Richard M. NixonThe most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhat a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live but things that help it make war.
Simone WeilLIFE 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 ChurchillNo event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. NixonWhen people speak to you about a preventive war you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThat'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 RyanTelling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. LewisWe'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 is good that war is so horrible or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. LeeIt 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 BryantFrom my big beautiful warlock brain welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner or you're with the trolls.
Charlie SheenA bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction. Do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain, even between brethren, is a declaration of war.
Lord ByronOur national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. RooseveltI have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
Will RogersOf the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald ReaganIn 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo matter what you think about the Iraq war there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary ClintonThere's something about Marxism that brings out warts, the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'RourkeAdversity is the first path to truth, He who hath proved war storm or woman's rage Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty Has won the experience which is deemed so weighty
Lord ByronThink of what happened after 9/11 the minute before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq and so the war drums beat.
Ron PaulWar will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. MenckenThe stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds.
Joseph AddisonFour years ago I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan and in 2014 our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline al Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Barack ObamaThere is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. KennedyThe last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn war there is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthurI 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.
Ernest HemingwayI am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
Lord ByronAdmiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose BierceAll war is deception.
Sun TzuWar - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy to accomplish our will.
George WashingtonFor centuries the death penalty often accompanied by barbarous refinements has been trying to hold crime in check, yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not as the law claims constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert CamusProbably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George OrwellThe great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
P. J. O'RourkeWhen the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing more to fear from them then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoYou've been drafted into a war you didn't start ... Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depended on your success.
Warren BuffettThey said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war and the soldier peace
William BlakeWe are not at war against Islam.
Barack ObamaWar is cruelty and none can make it gentle.
Gilbert ParkerWar is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
Ron PaulI 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.
Douglas MacArthurWar is a contagion.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Albert CamusNullification means insurrection and war, and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew JacksonThe guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.
Lyndon B. JohnsonOnly the dead have seen the end of war.
PlatoI do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert EinsteinIt is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
Rush LimbaughWars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest HemingwayThis is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAnyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Eleanor RooseveltWhen friends asked me Can we help? I'd say Not unless you can alter time speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Charlie SheenThis administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonCliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron PaulThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillBut do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution the answer is no.
Barack ObamaThere has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun TzuThe war on terrorism can never be won.
Warren BuffettDiplomats 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 RogersThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions the emotions - it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis SingerPeople do not make wars, governments do.
Ronald ReaganLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron PaulWar is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose BierceThey 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.
Ernest HemingwayI should like to know who has been carried off except poor dear me -- I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
Lord ByronI have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas JeffersonWhat a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Robert E. LeeThe war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E. LeeMankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. KennedyThe basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. MenckenWar is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
George OrwellAll warfare is based on deception.
Sun TzuThe arts of peace are great And no less glorious than those of war.
William BlakeOceania was at war with Eurasia, therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George OrwellAndy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran LebowitzWhat is not conservative about saying 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
Ron PaulWhat charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor the education of its young the repair of its failing infrastructure the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingIn war resolution, in defeat defiance, in victory magnanimity
Winston ChurchillSometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really really do.
Hillary ClintonWars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
Alan Watts