America Quote by Thomas Paine

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

— George Washington

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They…

— David Hackett Fischer

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

The only war is the war against the imagination.

— Diane di Prima

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

America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on…

— Henry Giroux

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal…

— George Orwell

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and…

— Walter Schellenberg

It is not a war. It is murder.

— Noam Chomsky