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
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
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
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
She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. Joan Rivers
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
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. Desiderius Erasmus
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Desiderius Erasmus
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. E. B. White
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. Christopher Hitchens
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
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
I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War. Dave Barry
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
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war. Jimmy Carter
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
When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes. Ann Coulter