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A man-of-war is the best ambassador. — Oliver Cromwell

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them. — Irwin Winkler

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself. — Stacy Schiff

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators. — Horatio Nelson

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace. — Ellen Glasgow

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. — George W. Bush

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. — Virginia Woolf

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway! — Robbie Williams

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. — David M. Shoup

A certain degree of preparation for war ... affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them. — Alasdair MacIntyre

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor. — Leon Uris

If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory)
Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Decisions to start a war always come down to what is in the best interests of the powerful few. — Andrew Watts

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing. — Kimberly Willis Holt

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree.
It will do you no best, until a shingle you free. — Shahzad Ashraf

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. — Francis Bacon

The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst. — H. E. Fosdick

War to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method. — Vida Dutton Scudder

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain. — Abraham Lincoln

Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks. — Akbar Ganji

Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this. — Sun Tzu

War is at its best barbarism. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. — Allan Lichtman

Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair. — Anonymous

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Whether in peace or in war, man generally speaking is the best thing that ever happened to the gods. — Jose Saramago

If only she and I could shut up for ten minutes, the sex would be the best of our lives. Angry. Hard. Fast. Not love. Not even close. War. — R.S. Grey

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat. — Saladin

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly — Nevil Shute

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best. — David Gemmell

Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best. — Kendare Blake

I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About. — J.D. Salinger

If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise! — Simon Pegg

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win. — Robert A. Heinlein

At one point in my life, I learned how to think. I used to know how to feel. In war, these are lessons best forgotten. — Ruth Ozeki

I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. — Henry V. O'Neil

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue. — Malala Yousafzai

War is at best barbarism. Its glory is all moonshine ... War is hell. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend. — Richard Jeni

And some cease feeling
Even themselves or for themselves.
Dullness best solves
The tease and doubt of shelling — Wilfred Owen

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War. — Ted Nugent

In cooking - as in business and war - hope for the best but plan for the worst. — Timothy Ferriss

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. — Niccolo Machiavelli

We are at war... The secret kind. The best kind. A war of shadows and mysteries... This is a fight for information, and for the truth. — Andrew Melvin

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. — Ulysses S. Grant

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. — Mohamed ElBaradei

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace. — Debasish Mridha

but after WWII, politics began to impede American war fighting to the extent that victory is fleeting at best and unlikely at worst. — Billy Vaughn

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war. — Roger Waters

Love is war. The best tactic in attack is surrender. — Chloe Thurlow

To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Life has thought me that I am always alone in war; I have to fight for myself; and it is the best cause. — M.F. Moonzajer

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a War. — Neal Shusterman

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do. — Alex London

Probably the best advertising jobs of all are done by governments to convince people to go to war. — Jerry Della Femina

God is on the side with the best artillery — Napoleon Bonaparte

We love others best when we love God most. — Kyle Idleman

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. — Herbert V. Prochnow

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country. — Silvio Berlusconi

The best battle is the battle that is never fought. The best war is the war that is won without a battle. — Frederick Lenz

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness. — Katy Perry

Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction. — Lesslie Newbigin

I'd like to think the best bunker buster is a diplomat. — Scott Ritter

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting. — Sun Tzu

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. — Evan Daugherty

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. — Anthony Eden

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves. — Patrick Henry

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity. — Randy Thornhorn

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all. — Megyn Kelly

To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace. — Aesop

The brutality of war could damage even the best of men. — Tracy Anne Warren

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand- - that and such hope as I bring. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best. — Criss Jami

Isn't the best defense always a good attack? — Ovid

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars. — Camille Paglia

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them. — Neil Lowe

Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity. — Mouloud Benzadi

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Some wars are best fought in the library. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best. — Sun Tzu

War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. — Richard Engel

'Phantom' follows some of the best submarine cold-war films made. There's just so much tension, I can't even describe it - you have to see it. — Johnathon Schaech

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. — Abraham Lincoln

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win. — Finley Peter Dunne

War is at best barbarism. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners. — Edmund Ironside

That is the best Government, which best provides for war. — Algernon Sidney

Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humour is the best weapon to fight any battle.
But there is a thin line between humour and humiliation and beware not to cross it. — Girish Kohli

Hopefully one day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win! — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The best armor is to keep out of range. — Abraham J. Twerski

It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world — Rosa Brooks

I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war. — John Motson

The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships. — Billy Collins

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. — Georgie Fame

We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms. — Erich Maria Remarque