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"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules"
Ross Perot, Businessman
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories"
Sun Tzu, Philosopher
"War is hell"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy"
William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries"
Barack Obama, President
"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time"
Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed"
Mao Tse-Tung, Leader
"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"
George W. Bush, President
"I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, our lion now will foreign foes assail"
John Dryden, Poet
"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions, but by iron and blood"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"War is like love; it always finds a way"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality"
John McCain, Politician
"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war"
John Adams, President
"I just want to conquer people and their souls"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America"
Corrine Brown, Politician
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace"
Tacitus, Historian
"And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave"
Robert Capa, Photographer
"As for the assertion that nuclear weapons prevent wars, how many more wars are needed to refute this arguments? Tens of millions have died in the many wars that have taken place since 1945"
Joseph Rotblat, Physicist
"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport"
Charles Lamb, Critic
"No war is inevitable until it breaks out"
A. J. P. Taylor, Historian
"If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail"
Ulysses S. Grant, President
"I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans, but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough"
Isaac Rosenberg, Poet
"If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
"If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn"
John Buchan, Politician
"War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable"
Dennis Weaver, Actor
"The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands"
Moshe Dayan, Soldier
"I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows"
George Crook, Soldier
"During the engagement, I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village"
George Crook, Soldier
"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can"
George Crook, Soldier
"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows"
Heinz Guderian, Soldier
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