I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

We can for example be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles with some scattering of others.

Really when it comes to gay rights there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.

There have been only 268 of the past 3 421 years free of war.

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.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress the other side more or less for reaction.

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

Think of what happened after 9/11 the minute before there was any assessment there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq and so the war drums beat.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes all of us defending the United States of America.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

When the question arose whether I as a member of the royal family should take part in active combat in the Falklands there was no question in her mind and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.