3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
3 December 2020 Allen West For far too long we’ve allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers – well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I’m here to set that record straight.
3 December 2020 Victor Cousin All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war they make it tour the world.
3 December 2020 Noel Coward That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.
3 December 2020 Eamon de Valera God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
3 December 2020 Barney Ross After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
3 December 2020 David Bailey I didn’t know a time when there wasn’t a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
3 December 2020 Gary Numan I want to start my own airplane business. I’m going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem – you know, where the old paratroopers used to go – and charge them about 20 quid a time.
3 December 2020 Michael Moore A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration.
3 December 2020 Thomas Merton Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
3 December 2020 Kurt Vonnegut All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
3 December 2020 Lester B. Pearson The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge 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.
3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz It’s never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon’s tapes.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
3 December 2020 Maya Lin It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
3 December 2020 John le Carre I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
3 December 2020 Condoleezza Rice The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer – we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them – we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
