What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live but things that help it make war.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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.

War is a profane thing.

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

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

War settles nothing.

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.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

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.

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.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct if you listen to it will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

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

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.