War

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

No war is over until the enemy says it's over.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.