"War is failure of diplomacy."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

William James, American Philosopher

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"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"In war there is no prize for runner-up."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, British Author

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"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation."

Frieda Lawrence, British Writer

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"I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party."

Job

"I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet."

Politics

"This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups."

Leadership

"The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity."

Politics

"Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate."

Democracy

"I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone."

Support

"The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views."

People

"I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare."

Security

"If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals."

Money

"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."

Friendship