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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sw

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

» Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

War is a contagion.

» Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of the USA

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

» Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) 32nd President of the USA

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

» George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

» George W. Bush (1946-?) American Politician

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

» George W. Bush (1946-?) American Politician

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

» Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th President of the USA

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

» Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) French Writer

Wars are made to make debt.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

» Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and writer

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

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

» George W. Bush (1946-?) American Politician

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