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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

George Wald

Scientist · American · 1906 – 1997

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

Robin Hayes

Politician · American · b. 1945

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leader · French · 1769 – 1821

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

Economist · Austrian · 1881 – 1973

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

Author · British · 1903 – 1950

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

Barney Oliver

Scientist · 1909 – 1995

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

Jim Ramstad

Politician · American · b. 1946

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Chuck Jones

Director · American · 1912 – 2002

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu

Philosopher · Chinese

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

Ulysses S. Grant

President · American · 1822 – 1885

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Jose Marti

Activist · 1853 – 1895

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

Barry Goldwater

Politician · American · 1909 – 1998

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Herman Kahn

Scientist · American · 1922 – 1983

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Otto von Bismarck

Leader · German · 1815 – 1898

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Thomas Paine

Writer · English · 1737 – 1809

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Keith Henson

Scientist · American

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Kenzaburo Oe

Writer · Japanese · b. 1935

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

Barry Goldwater

Politician · American · 1909 – 1998

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Robert Jay Lifton

Psychologist · American · b. 1926

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Lloyd Alexander

Writer · American · 1924 – 2007

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader · American · 1929 – 1968

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Douglas Hurd

Politician · British · b. 1930

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.

Lawrence Halprin

Architect · American · b. 1916

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

Paddy Ashdown

Politician · British · b. 1941

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

Activist · American · 1897 – 1980

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

James Longstreet

Soldier · American · 1821 – 1904

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Edgar Watson Howe

Editor · American · 1853 – 1937

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

Peter Jennings

Journalist · Canadian · b. 1938

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Silvio Berlusconi

Statesman · Italian · b. 1936

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

Gyorgy Ligeti

Composer · Hungarian · 1923 – 2006

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Stefan Zweig

Writer · Austrian · 1881 – 1942

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

Novelist · Spanish · 1547 – 1616

We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

Joe Lieberman

Politician · American · b. 1942

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Soldier · 1820 – 1891

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Cindy Sheehan

Activist · American · b. 1957

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

Jim Walsh

Politician · Irish · b. 1947

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Jurgen Habermas

Philosopher · German · b. 1929

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

Businessman · American

Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations.

Li Peng

Public Servant · Chinese

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Helen Suzman

Politician · South African · 1917 – 2009

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Philosopher · 1466 – 1536

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Robert Shea

Author · American · 1909 – 1994

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

John Hewson

Politician · Australian · b. 1946

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.

Moshe Dayan

Soldier · Israeli · 1915 – 1981

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

John Boyd Orr

Politician · Scottish · 1880 – 1971

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