I am the son of many chiefs. My sword is sharp and terrible. It is the mightiest of things when the pot of war boils fiercely.
al-Walid, Khalid ibn
I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty.
Christopher Jordan Dorner
Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
James Earl Carter, Jr.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.
Thomas Carlyle
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
Smedley Darlington Butler
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
Smedley Darlington Butler
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Darlington Butler
In the late 1930s, as Britain refused to adapt to the new realities of war, Winston Churchill observed, "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
George Walker Bush
In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we are winning, and we will win.
George Walker Bush