- Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov on War
- Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
- Donald Rumsfeld on War
- Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on War
- Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
- Sarah Palin on War
- Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
- Lindsey Graham on War
- 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.
- Will Rogers on War
- Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
- Allan Massie on War
- Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on War
- Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.
- Ron Fournier on War
- Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
- Samuel Goldwyn on War
- During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
- John Le Carre on War
- During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
- Fareed Zakaria on War
- During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
- Lionel Blue on War
- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
- Thomas Hobbes on War
- During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
- Howard Thurman on War
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