Began Quote by Eamon de Valera

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.

— Hans von Seeckt

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not…

— George William Norris

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will…

— Immanuel Kant

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or…

— Camille Paglia

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

— Kenneth Waltz

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains…

— Heinrich von Treitschke

“There are situations that a nation may be in, in which peace or war, abstracted from every other consideration, may be politically right or…

— Thomas Paine

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in…

— William Westmoreland

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully…

— Michael Hastings

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become…

— Ronald Reagan