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"War is the trade of Kings"
John Dryden, Poet
"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war"
Herbert Hoover, President
"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of"
Neil Young, Musician
"In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed"
Stanislaw Lec, Poet
"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes"
Julius Caesar, Leader
"War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man"
Napoleon Hill, Writer
"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war, one observes the rules of politeness"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account"
Neville Chamberlain, Politician
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing"
Neville Chamberlain, Politician
"War remains the decisive human failure"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization!"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
"Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war"
John McCain, Politician
"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?"
John McCain, Politician
"We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home!"
John McCain, Politician
"My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that"
John McCain, Politician
"Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will!"
John McCain, Politician
"I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together"
John McCain, Politician
"You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare"
John McCain, Politician
"On the subject of Osama bin Laden... We will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell"
John McCain, Politician
"World War II was the last government program that really worked"
George Will, Journalist
"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"It is not only the living who are killed in war"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"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, Scientist
"John 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, Scientist
"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it"
Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian
"We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"That is what war is and dancing, it is forward and back, when one is out walking, one wants not to go back the way they came, but in dancing and in war it is forward and back"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to NATO that the organisation was no longer necessary"
Giulio Andreotti, Politician
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it"
Thomas Hardy, Novelist
"Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas"
Phil Donahue, Entertainer
"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems"
Jack Kevorkian, Activist
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