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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side.
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven.
As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.
I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."
The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war.
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.
George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.
...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
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.
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.