Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

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.
Ted Nugent

War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
Ted Nugent

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
Amelia Earhart

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
George W. Bush

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
George W. Bush

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
George W. Bush

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
George W. Bush

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
George W. Bush

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
R. Lee Ermey