“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
“War would end if the dead could return.”
“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”
“What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?”
“But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.”
“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.”
“When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.”
“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
“The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.”
“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.”
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”
“Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.”
“Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.”
“The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.”
“War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.”
“I was drafted during the Korean War.”
“Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.”
“Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.”
“What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'”
“There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.”
“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”
“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.”