The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.
The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it's so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are 'others' whom we can legitimately make war upon.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
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?'
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.
War is not cheap, but it's the human cost that's the highest.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
Surviving is the only glory in war.
I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit for my career path. He pioneered the use of aerial photography in forestry in the 1950s, and we think he worked as a spy for the CIA during the Cold War, mapping Russian installations.
There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility - a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war.
Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.