If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over…

“I had a feeling Aunt Bette was thinking of taking on the Russian mob.”

— Kristen Ashley

One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the…

— Jon Lee Anderson

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed…

— Carl von Clausewitz

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

— Saxby Chambliss

But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.

— Christopher Shays

The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult…

— Robert Fisk

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

— Ron Wyden

Yes, there are bad apples, but I do feel journalists do a good job, often in very difficult circumstances.

— Fiona Barton

You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage…

— Brian Regan

“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.”

— Walter Moers