"To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?"

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"To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?"

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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

War, Peace, Irony, Technology

"War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

War, Violence, Humanity, Blood

"War is a bad thing, but peace can be a living horror."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

War, Peace, Horror, Conflict

"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."

William Tecumseh Sherman, American Soldier

War, People, Fighting, Old

"This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

War, Trauma, Youth, Violence

"Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

War, Compassion, Loss, Leadership

"Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

War, Humanity, Conflict, History

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

War, Defense, Revenge

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

Will Rogers, American Actor

War, Nation

"We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away."

Kevin Costner, American Actor

War, Delusion, Destruction

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"Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on."

People

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

Security

"I'm Polish, I carry no grudges."

Politics

"War is failure of diplomacy."

War

"The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there."

Mistake

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

Democracy

"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

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

Friendship

"If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens."

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