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Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. – Otto von Bismarck

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. – Karl Kraus

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. – Charles Caleb Colton

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. – Washington Irving

What is more immoral than war? – Marquis de Sade

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. – H. G. Wells

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. – William Tecumseh Sherman

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. – Steven Spielberg

When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. – Steven Spielberg

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. – John Stuart Mill

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

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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

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

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. – Norman Schwarzkopf

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down. – Andrew Jackson

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. – Charles de Gaulle

I am against all war. – Sophia Loren