War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

I smelled war on the horizon, with more deaths and trouble to come" Bombing of the Twin TowersFrom Rape of a Nation by Sara Niles

The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.

Minie balls and repeating rifles. That was why the body count was so high. We had trench warfare in America way before WW1. p128

You cannot choose your battlefield,God does that for you;But you can plant a standardWhere a standard never flew.(From The Colors)

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one

It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago--he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.