The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
Americans 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.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
If 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.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
The 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.
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.
We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
A peaceful world requires collective measures for the prevention of war, international cooperation to solve economic and social problems, and respect for human rights.
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
Once you start a war, you have to win.
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
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'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!