3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.
3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
3 December 2020 George Galloway I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
3 December 2020 Muammar al-Gaddafi We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
3 December 2020 Rebecca West Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
3 December 2020 Joseph A. Schumpeter Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.
3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
3 December 2020 Ann Coulter When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there’s a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
3 December 2020 John le Carre In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.
3 December 2020 Conrad Black Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
3 December 2020 Antoine de Saint-Exupery War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
3 December 2020 Sophia Loren The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
3 December 2020 Julius Caesar Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
3 December 2020 Margaret Sanger War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
3 December 2020 Patty Hearst I frankly don’t think it’s going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can’t share information, there’s no way this war can be won.
3 December 2020 Dougray Scott You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
