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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency. — Hank Johnson

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people. — James Montgomery Boice

In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma — Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is the rule of force, and peace is the reign of law. — Calvin Coolidge

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things
law and war. — Philip James Bailey

War is the absence of law, yet there are so many rules governing it. My enemy never obeyed any rules. — David Bowman

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. — Bonar Law

three living men had seen horrors, and those who see horrors may do horrors just as bad, that is the law of life and war. Soon — Sebastian Barry

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow' ... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China. — Bernard Law Montgomery

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy. — Mao Zedong

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. — John F. Kennedy

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war. — Belva Lockwood

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law. — Noam Chomsky

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be. — Sir Laurens Van Der Post

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty ... words ever determine lives. — Leanna Renee Hieber

In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power. — Victor Klemperer

A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. — Abraham Lincoln

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. — Friedrich Von Bernhardi

Stellar Wind resurrected Cold War tactics with twenty-first-century technology. It let the FBI work with the NSA outside of the limits of the law. — Tim Weiner

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war. — Andrew Jackson

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? — Arlen Specter

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world. — Ann Clwyd

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. — Sun Tzu

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. — Voltaire

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war. — Plutarch

Come on soldiers! Guardians and agents of the supreme law! Here is a sacrifice of dogs ready for your swords! — Ilghazi

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law. — Walter Raleigh

In times of war, the law falls silent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice. — Tom Feiling

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. — Winston Churchill

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. — John F. Kerry

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government. — Albert Einstein

When every young man refuses to go to war, you will have peace. You do not defend any idea with violence. — Jane Roberts

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. — Abraham Lincoln

War knows no law except that of might. — Mahatma Gandhi

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. — Sarah Palin