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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Ulysses S. Grant

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

A. J. P. Taylor

Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Watts

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Albert Einstein

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Chris Hedges

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Boake Carter

War is not one disaster of milions of people. War is milions of disasters of one person.

Hans van Mierlo

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Karl von Clausewitz

Every war is a national misfortune

Helmeth Von Moltke

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Andre Malraux

War is the unfolding of miscalculations

Barbara W. Tuchman

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Donald Kagan

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The victory of a war is not determined by the size of an army or the quality of armaments. Factors like unshakable determination, heroism, and desire for liberation determine victory.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

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

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Barack Obama

The sword is our steel Bible!

Baron Sadao Araki

You know the real meaning of PEACE only if you have been through the war

Kosovar

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Ralph Bunche

You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie

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