The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation. — Charles Louis De Secondat
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not only in budgetary terms — John Conyers Jr.
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext — Robert M. La Follette Jr.
Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence — Robert M. La Follette Jr.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed — Abraham Flexner
The real war is not between the west and the east. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. — Marjane Satrapi
Sometimes I wonder if love is worth fighting for, but then I remember your face and i`m ready for war.
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation — Gustav Heinemann
We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious. — Manfred Von Richthofen
My dear excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose. — Marc Davis
If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent. — Edward S. Herman
A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head. — Andrei Platonov
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there’s two wars going on. The first war is political. — Dan Savage
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. — William Tecumseh Sherman
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. — Robert Alphonso Taft
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else – men, guns, ammunition. — Ida M. Tarbell
I’m praying we don’t go to war with iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier. — Elizabeth Vargas
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily — Martin van Creveld
As history since hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it — Martin van Creveld