No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. Phyllis Schlafly
I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. Karl Von Clausewitz
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. Karl Von Clausewitz
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. Karl Von Clausewitz
What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign. Dennis Miller
What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. Iain Duncan Smith
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. Diane Kruger
I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box. Diane Kruger
Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it. Diane Kruger
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids. Rand Paul
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. Rand Paul
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. Rand Paul
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. Haruki Murakami
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. Haruki Murakami
We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love. Elton John
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. Herodotus
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. Larry Hagman
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. P. D. James