Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

We have a war dictator who was not elected he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Love and war are the same thing and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

There's an assault on human sexuality as Judge Scalia said they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things but not as conservative.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

For one thing I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

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.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live but things that help it make war.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

War is a profane thing.

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.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing that no man especially a Christian man has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

War settles nothing.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress the other side more or less for reaction.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.