War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.