Character Quote by William Westmoreland

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

— Robert E. Lee

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

— Howard Zinn

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to…

— Omar al-Bashir

We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit…

— Joschka Fischer

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law…

— Ed Balls

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become…

— Ronald Reagan

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

— Chuck Hagel

It was not war, it was murder.

— Daniel Harvey Hill

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an…

— Simone Weil

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any…

— Yitzhak Rabin

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

— Desiderius Erasmus