Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.