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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.
[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
The fight against radical Islamic terrorists and ISIS has been called the war of our time.
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
War stinks! There's nothing good about it. But you know the whole thing, it's you or them.
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.
You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have
I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.
All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.
Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world, and that God will preserve it always.
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.
I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.
No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.
A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.
The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.