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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
Golda Meir
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
Golda Meir
War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew Jackson
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Ambrose Bierce
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.
James Madison
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison
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.
James Madison
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison
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