In war, nothing is ever certain.

War is about survival, not perfection.

There is no magic formula to war. It’s about making the right decisions at the right time.

Our job is not to win the peace, it’s to win the war.

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

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

Every match is a war.

Nobody wants to go to war.

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

War! It is purification, liberation, an enormous hope … The victory of Germany will be a paradox, nay, a wonder: a victory of the soul over numbers … The German soul is opposed to the pacifist ideal of civilization, for is not peace the element, of civil corruption?

All alike must carry arms and go to war. All have by nature a heart full of pride, unbelief, sloth, worldliness, and sin. All are living in a world beset with snares, traps, and pitfalls for the soul. All have near them a busy, restless, malicious devil.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

By legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.

In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars

In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. … The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.

Freedom has more often been lost in small steps by progressive incrementalism, than it has been by catastrophic upheavals such as violence or war.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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 … should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is, against the Real.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that’s just the way it is

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it’s less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women’s role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply

Football is a competition to see who’s the best, not a battle. It’s not a war. When it ends, we’re still alive.

We as the governments, workers, employers and civil society must declare a war on child labour. This war cannot be won without strong, committed, coherent, and well-resourced worldwide movement. Equally needed is a genuine and active coordination between intergovernmental agencies at the highest level.

His deepest fear was that its invention would inspire a deadly nuclear arms race between the West and the Soviet Union. To prevent this, he insisted, it was imperative that the Russians be told about the existence of the bomb project, and be assured that it was no threat to them.

Everybody’s at war with different things. I’m at war with my own heart sometime

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink

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

I was Jake’s insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn’t have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn’t let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn’t let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against ‘the rich’ and big business, they don’t care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed

In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. I got to fully experience and appreciate both the tragedy of Somalia and the beauty of it.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

In my own view, Hamas’ disappointment gets from an absence of legitimization by Israel and by a great part of the world. It is this disappointment that leads them to such ruinous urgency. That is the reason we have to give them status as a real adversary – before we talk about an understanding or, on the other hand, about a frontal war.

Amid the war the capitalists were asserting national necessity.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history – military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what’s generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

A president can start a war under relatively specious circumstances, and once American soldiers are under fire, Americans will support the soldiers and support the president.

A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of troops into battle in 1965, most Americans were behind the war.

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

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

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

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.

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. The objection to it is not that it is predominantly painful, but that it is lacking in sense.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The root of war is fear

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own.

The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

This isn’t a war… It never was a war, any more than there’s a war between men and ants.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

If we don’t end war, war will end us.

Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it

Homo homini lupus

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry… no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short

The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

[Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s] orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

He succeeded in having Macondo raised to the status of a municipality and he was therefore its first mayor, and he created an atmosphere of confidence that made people think of the war as an absurd nightmare of the past.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

There’s this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. “Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind… And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind.” When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.

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

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

If Lincoln’s primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

Love is swift of foot;/Love’s a man of war.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

In any war, you put your back to mine, I put my back to yours, and let’s do what we gotta do.

You want to play the game, you’d better know the rules, love.

It’s a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.

The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

We must remember that the main enemy is the Arabs. We must not declare war on the Arab States, but we must be prepared in our hearts and minds to see them not only as individuals, but as an Arab nation.

I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

I want to go where the guns are!

We make generals today on the basis of their ability to write a damned letter. Those kinds of men can’t get us ready for war.

If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

War is the business of barbarians.

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

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Success in war depends on the golden rules of war: speed, simplicity, and boldness.

War is the only place where a man lives.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Everyone had a story about a family member who’d had to go in to hiding, or a friend who’d been dragged off to a concentration camp, or a house that had been destroyed by a bomb. Then they moved on to rumours about the war- about Patton, the American general who was making such good progress on the Western Front.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Many Soldiers Are Led to Faulty Ideas of War by Knowing Too Much About Too Little.

Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles.

The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.

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.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Mankind must put and end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.

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

The right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire … I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

Make love and not war! ‘Cause we don’t need no trouble.

That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, Dis a war

Until the color of a man’s skin, is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes, me say war.