I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

There are people who cannot forget as neither do I the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was first that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer and a conspirator and a liar.

The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

When war comes two things happen - profits go way way up and all perishables go way way down. There becomes a market for them.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

We can for example be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles with some scattering of others.

Really when it comes to gay rights there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other as I do when the Christians do because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today if only we had eyes to see them.

There have been only 268 of the past 3 421 years free of war.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

The executive has no right in any case to decide the question whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

In war there is no substitute for victory.