These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date?
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.
The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
