Authority Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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

“On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the rights of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly,…

— Thomas Paine

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

— Norman Mailer

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

— James Madison

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

— Ferdinand Foch

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

— Gian Giacomo Trivulzio

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is…

— Robert M. La Follette

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

— Livy

Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by…

— Alexander Hamilton

The principal cause of war is war itself.

— C. Wright Mills