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3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.

3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

3 December 2020 Gary Bauer

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

3 December 2020 Lech Walesa

My youth passed at the time of the country’s reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

3 December 2020 Tony Blair

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

3 December 2020 Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

3 December 2020 Saul Bellow

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.

3 December 2020 Omar N. Bradley

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

3 December 2020 Anacreon

Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

3 December 2020 Stephen Harper

On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

3 December 2020 Ben Barnes

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

3 December 2020 George Soros

Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

3 December 2020 Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

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

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

War is never a solution it is an aggravation.

3 December 2020 Larry Hagman

I’m sure it is, I’m not for any kind of war, we’ve been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

3 December 2020 Jefferson Davis

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

3 December 2020 Chief Joseph

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

3 December 2020 Ted Turner

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.

3 December 2020 Albert Pike

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

3 December 2020 Talib Kweli

I think its man’s nature to go to war and fight.

3 December 2020 Gene Tierney

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

3 December 2020 Sharron Angle

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

3 December 2020 Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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