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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out. — Barbara Kingsolver

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

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war. — Thucydides

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. — Irene Khan

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace. — James Thomson

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war. — Tim O'Brien

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford

I know that this operation will be sort of helter-skelter. But the First Marine Division is going to win the war by landing at Inchon. — Douglas MacArthur

He was a real-life soldier playing soldier from his memories of made up soldiers. — Alex London

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. — Sun Tzu

I live like a Nazi war criminal or a serial killer... like I have something to be ashamed of. — Elliott James

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war. — Homer

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor. — Etgar Keret

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. — Graham Hancock

Cuz that's it -
That's the nasty, nasty secret of war -
When yer winning -
When yer winning, it's effing thrilling - — Patrick Ness

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends. — Albert Einstein

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself. — Horatio Nelson

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. — Zaha Hadid

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

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror. — George W. Bush

I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase. — J. E. B. Stuart

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self. — Balroop Singh

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say ... 'How can you subdue such a nation as this!' — Arthur Fremantle

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas. — Tucker Carlson

With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. — Anthony Liccione

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. — H.G.Wells

The threat of a world war is no more. — Mikhail Gorbachev

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation. — Ahad Ha'am

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me — Clint Van Winkle

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ... — Jane Porter

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness. — Prince Hassan Bin Talal

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop. — Yoko Ono

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. — Jaggi Vasudev

The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries. — Richard Aldington

I am more anxious than I can express that my men should be not only good soldiers of their country, but also good soldiers of the cross. — Stonewall Jackson

When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food. — Sun Tzu

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble. — Winston Churchill

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated ... and I trust so are his war stories. — Richard Finney

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war. — Pope Francis

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. — Ben Carson

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee

N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. — Caryl Parker Haskins

One way to drive home the futility and evil of war is to tap the distancing power of satire. — Steven Pinker

In wartime, everyone's birthday turns into a commemoration of something so sad. — Danny M. Cohen

It is a comfort to know that, regardless of our mistakes, the God who loved, forgave, and empowered David does the same for us. — Cliff Graham

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom. — Jeff Sharlet

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. — Wendell Berry

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war. — Kim Jong-un

Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man. — Yukio Mishima

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke Of Wellington

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

Just beyond the edges of our little circle of sunshine, a ferocious war was going on. — Haruki Murakami

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. — Bryant McGill

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen. — Miyamoto Musashi

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. — David McCullough

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days. — Zlata Filipovic

Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools — Michael Pitre

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. — Heinrich Heine

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. — Yasser Arafat

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after. — Ogden Nash

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. — Paul Valery

Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

Deception is the art of war. — James Patterson

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them. — Billy Graham

Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon. — Ann Coulter

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman

I know of nothing more exciting than war. — Moshe Dayan

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin. — Nikita Khrushchev

Real peace is not only the absence of war but the presence of God . — Osunsakin Adewale

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

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 guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. — Clint Eastwood

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. — Sophia Loren

And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war. — Stephen Greco

Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe. — Marianne Curley

The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another. — Duke Of Wellington

With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war. — John Fusco

Whenever I think of this attack, my stomach turns over. — Adolf Hitler

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. — Wilfred Owen

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. — Alan Alda

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war. — William Tecumseh Sherman

It is a higher glory ... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. — Augustine Of Hippo

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it. — Chalmers Johnson

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war. — Albert Camus

It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme — Bangambiki Habyarimana