War Quote by Robert M. La Follette

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

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

— Bela Kiraly

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

— John C. Calhoun

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

— George W. Bush

The principal cause of war is war itself.

— C. Wright Mills

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing…

— Thomas Paine

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

— Simone Weil

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

— Sharon Stone

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an…

— Carl von Clausewitz

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

— Michel Foucault

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

— Robert A. Heinlein