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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Religious austerities should be practiced alone study by two and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four agriculture by five and war by many together.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Don'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.

War is never a solution, it is an aggravation.

As a result of my philosophy I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then and it is misremembered now.

When 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.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics many times.

So did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

That'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.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Telling 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.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

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

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.

Cards are war in disguise of a sport.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate wars producing more wars - must be broken or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

No matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves, and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime.

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

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

Secret operations are essential in war, upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men between brothers?

We'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.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

It is good that war is so horrible or we might grow to like it.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Duh! So we're asking you now what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

By peace western countries mean the interval between two wars. That is no peace! When man thinks speaks and does good - peace will ensue.

It 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.

You must not fight too often with one enemy or you will teach him all your art of war.

From my big beautiful warlock brain welcome to 'Sheen's Korner' ... You're either in my corner or you're with the trolls.

A 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.

Our 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.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

I 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.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

Every gun that is made every warship launched every rocket fired signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

In 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.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned chemical filled body in my office.

All oppression creates a state of war.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The United States is not and never will be at war with Islam.

Wars are of course as a rule to be avoided, but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

No 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.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts, the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or ensure it of victory in time of war.

The purpose of all wars is peace.

In time of war when truth is so precious it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Peace has its victories no less than war but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Adversity 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

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was holding us together.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration especially in the Pentagon where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war with disastrous results.

We have sustained a defeat without a war.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

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.

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.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Think 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.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me and there I am. There's nothing behind it.

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

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

In order for a war to be just three things are necessary. First the authority of the sovereign. Secondly a just cause. Thirdly a rightful intention.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I who have spent so much of my life in the military profession would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

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

The 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.

What is human warfare but just this, an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

To establish any mode to abolish war however advantageous it might be to Nations would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Four 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.

There 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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

We used to wonder where war lived what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

In time of war the laws are silent.

War is a catalouge of blunders.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

I 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.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

A skilful leech is better far than half a hundred men of war.

The sinews of art and literature like those of war are money.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

God is day and night winter and summer war and peace surfeit and hunger.

War settles nothing.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments the governments alone independent of the interests of the people to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

All war is deception.

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.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy to accomplish our will.

For 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.

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.

When rich people fight wars with one another poor people are the ones to die.

It made me feel good. We've been through so many wars together. Now just be able to move on try to do the best for this team wish him the best in South Beach. I think it's good for the city of Los Angeles good for the NBA good for the youth being Martin Luther King Day.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent they are making America more secure.

The 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.

When 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.

As this long and difficult war ends I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

You'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.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile.

They said this mystery never shall cease: the priest promotes war and the soldier peace

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile grin. If you can't grin keep out of the way till you can.

I just want you to know that when we talk about war we're really talking about peace.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

To jaw-jaw- is always better than to war-war

We are not at war against Islam.

War is cruelty and none can make it gentle.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

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.

War is a contagion.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Nullification means insurrection and war, and the other states have a right to put it down.

The guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

When you are thwarted it is your own attitude that is out of order.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

I 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.

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war, but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

It 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.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow this war will still be with you.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

When 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.

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.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Cliches 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.

Those 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.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution the answer is no.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

The war on terrorism can never be won.

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.

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

The 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.

People do not make wars, governments do.

Life is warfare.

In 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.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

They 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.

I 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.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The 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.

War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.

All warfare is based on deception.

The arts of peace are great And no less glorious than those of war.

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Oceania was at war with Eurasia, therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

What 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?'

What 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.

In war resolution, in defeat defiance, in victory magnanimity

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really really do.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.