A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
Victor Hugo

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sinews of war are infinite money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
Andrew Jackson

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

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Edward Abbey

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee

This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee