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As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon on war

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson on war

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer on war

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.
Chris Christie on war

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
David Herbert Lawrence on war

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
David Herbert Lawrence on war

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza on war

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers on war

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
Gary Johnson on war

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus on war

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Desiderius Erasmus on war

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
Desiderius Erasmus on war

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White on war

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
Christopher Hitchens on war

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
Christopher Hitchens on war

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
Christopher Hitchens on war

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
Dave Barry on war

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.
Allen West on war

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter on war

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery on war