Declaring Quote by Bertolt Brecht

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

— Joseph Story

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

— Ron Paul

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

— Nellie L. McClung

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

— Lester B. Pearson

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government…

— James Madison

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a…

— Thomas Aquinas

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

— Walter Scott