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

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. – William Tecumseh Sherman

In every war zone that Ive been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. – John le Carre

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. – Harry Emerson Fosdick