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"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"Tell them to send everything that can fly"
Richard M. Nixon, President
"To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments for reasons of security to land anywhere but in the tiny and still neutral Republic of Djibouti"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"All war is based on deception"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"War is at its best barbarism"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"In our country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake"
Barack Obama, President
"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war"
Barack Obama, President
"The Constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure"
George Washington, President
"War is a blessing compared with national degradation"
Andrew Jackson, President
"The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once"
Andrew Jackson, President
"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody"
Andrew Jackson, President
"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes"
Douglas MacArthur, Soldier
"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present, and the future, the power to bring time to an end"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"People like me sound like a lot of big cannons"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind"
George W. Bush, President
"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud"
George W. Bush, President
"The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger"
George W. Bush, President
"Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction"
George W. Bush, President
"If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe"
Simone Weil, Philosopher
"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals"
Edward Abbey, Author
"In a war, everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times, it is just Switzerland, but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil"
Gore Vidal, Novelist
"Let us not be deceived, we are today in the midst of a cold war"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
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