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I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones on war

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman on war

War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez on war

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel on war

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert on war

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson on war

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike on war

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
William Tecumseh Sherman on war

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern on war

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland on war

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Havelock Ellis on war

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin on war

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin on war

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson on war

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick on war

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman on war

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow on war

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles Evans Hughes on war

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin on war