We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. Doc Hastings
For what can war, but endless war, still breed? John Milton
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. E. W. Howe
Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. John Andrew Holmes
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. St. Jerome
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. Judy Biggert
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Hannah Arendt
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. Thomas Hardy
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. Benito Mussolini
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'. Duke of Wellington
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. David Cameron
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. John Foster Dulles
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. Miguel de Cervantes
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other. Miguel de Cervantes
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth. Ernie Pyle
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. Henry A. Wallace
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. John Podhoretz