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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

War makes strange bedfellows.

Peace must be more than the absence of war.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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

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.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

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.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Once 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.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

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.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you're going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it's like we called Saddam's army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

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.

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.