Believe Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“It is not realistic to put legal constraints on war powers. Law works through general prospective rules that apply to a range of factual…

— Eric A. Posner

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

— Rand Paul

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

— Anonymous

How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and…

— Isaac Asimov

To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who…

— Ralph Bunche

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable…

— N. T. Wright

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence…

— Albert Einstein

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...

— Albert Einstein

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man,…

— Elihu Root

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

— Marianne Moore