3 December 2020 Jane Smiley I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
3 December 2020 James Madison 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.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
3 December 2020 Shelby Foote And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.
3 December 2020 Daniel Morgan As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz I mean, we’re going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I’m alive.
3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
3 December 2020 Percy Bysshe Shelley War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
3 December 2020 Bob Hawke My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
3 December 2020 Gene Tierney I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
3 December 2020 Smedley Butler War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
3 December 2020 Harry Bridges There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
3 December 2020 Mario Puzo He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero and I’ll show you a corpse.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill 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.
3 December 2020 Katherine Dunn American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
