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If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Nobody would ever want to read a textbook about the Civil War and then interrupt that for two pages about water rights in the west.
Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.
President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'
They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
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.
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.
When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.
Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe.
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.
Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.
You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
I don't have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.
You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare.
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.
The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.
Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.