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That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public. — Robert McNamara

No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle — Gaiven Clairmont

There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. — George McGovern

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth. — Anton Walbrook

It is war's prize to take all vantages;
And ten to one is no impeach of valor. — William Shakespeare

He was forced into war by a misunderstanding - and always claimed he was no warrior - yet he came to fight as well as any man. — Brandon Sanderson

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. — Pope John Paul II

After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons. — Herodotus

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back. — Kerry Greenwood

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it. — James Risen

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war. — Cindy Sheehan

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. — Chang-rae Lee

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. — Joe Abercrombie

In warfare, there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent will succeed and win. — Sun Tzu

It makes no since to fight a war that is already won. — Angela Brown

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. — William Ellery Channing

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in. — Margaret Thatcher

You no longer need to fly a World War II aircraft in an age of jet fighters, and you no longer need to weigh yourself against a non-existent Norma. — Todd Rose

Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war. — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. — Joseph Heller

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war — Robert Black

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know. — Jane Goodall

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did. — Chaka Fattah

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them. — Sun Tzu

Don't go to war no more. Steady peace because peace is all we need. — Katherine Jackson

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. — Desiderius Erasmus

First of all, I want you to know that I believed in the cause for which I died. No war is won without sacrifice. — Elizabeth Berg

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. — Selma Diamond

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. — William James

There was no center to the world. The curves of all our bells are cracked. — Kevin Powers

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world. — Richard E. Byrd

The war between England and Scotland was in its eighth year and there had been no raid for ten days: it had seemed possible to get married in peace. — Dorothy Dunnett

I tried to peg out soldierly,
no use!
One dies of war like any old disease. — Wilfred Owen

I don't like the word "hero." There are no heroes in war. As soon as someone picks up a weapon, they can no longer be good. They won't be able to. — Svetlana Alexievich

War is no strife
To the dark house and the detested wife. — William Shakespeare

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war. — John F. Kerry

It was war times, and you had to take a side: good or bad. There was no middle ground — Yunnuen Gonzalez

You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war ... not a good comparison. — Ken Rosenthal

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do — Adolf Hitler

There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself — Mark Owen

But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them. — Leila Sales

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction. — Saul David

He had conquered murder only to be faced with war. There were no laws for that. — T.H. White

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place. — Andrew Levkoff

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name. — William Shakespeare

No one else could carry close to forty-five thousand people in such a short amount of time. Not in a million human years. — Markus Zusak

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do. — David Gemmell

No one is my enemy or the Gospel's ... just prisoners of war that Christ longs to set free. — Bill Myers

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland. — George W. Bush

There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal. — Albert Camus

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. — Ulysses S. Grant

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union. — Abraham Lincoln

The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace — Ezra Pound

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose. — Aaron Sorkin

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it. — Walter Lippmann

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds. — Greg Bear

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no. — Chinelo Okparanta

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan. — Rand Paul

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. — Charles Lindbergh

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive. — Evelyn Waugh

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime. — Guy Sajer

To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders. — Derrick Wolf

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. — Mike Lee

I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters
mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming. — Arthur Wimperis

Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland — Jacqueline Carey

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. — Pearl S. Buck

no one has ever gone to war over music. — David Byrne

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia. — Robert E.Lee

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons. — Croesus

It's no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds. — Tina Fey

After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost. — Steven Herrick

There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters? — Kameron Hurley

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life. — Donald Rumsfeld

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. — Leo Tolstoy

When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. — William Wallace

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no! — Hunter S. Thompson

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind. — Lou Reed

With no draft, the only people who went to war were those who wanted to, or at least those who wanted to join the military. — Tim O'Brien

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views. — Stephen Cohen

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. — Joseph Goebbels

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops. — John J. Pershing

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one. — Will Rogers

We have yielded no more than a few hundred yards of it as a prize to the enemy. But on every yard there lies a dead man. — Erich Maria Remarque

People always want to live, even during wartime. You'll learn a lot from living through a war...There is no beast worse than man. — Svetlana Alexievich

No matter how slow or long it takes, it is never too late to right a wrong. — Mark W. Boyer

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils. — Lord Mountbatten

Chaperoning rules had relaxed since the outbreak of war. It was no longer scandalous for a single woman to go out unescorted in the daytime. — Ken Follett

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. — Edmund Burke

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments. — Girdhar Joshi

Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle

Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II. — Kurt Masur

It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die. — Amie Kaufman

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists. — Robert Anton Wilson

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history ... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer