Blank Quote by Sandra Day O'Connor

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”

— Sandra Day O'Connor

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

— Carl von Clausewitz

The law is silent during war

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is the normal state of the people.

— Benito Mussolini

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

— Andrew Jackson

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

— Anonymous

[The] government has room to scale back individual rights during wartime without violating the Constitution. The Constitution just sets minimums. Most of the rights…

— Antonin Scalia

War is the Health of the State.

— Randolph Bourne

There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.

— Alice Sebold