3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
3 December 2020 George Wald All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
3 December 2020 R. Lee Ermey The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
3 December 2020 Arlen Specter If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell 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.
3 December 2020 Ryan Gosling I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it’s all in the uniform. Once you’re in it, it usually does all the work for you.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Bowen Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
3 December 2020 will.i.am We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don’t control that. If politicians want a war we don’t control that. Acts of terrorism, we can’t control them.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can’t come up with real lasting solutions!
3 December 2020 George Porter I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
3 December 2020 Rand Paul The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
3 December 2020 Thucydides Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
3 December 2020 Joan Baez If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
3 December 2020 Plato When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
