If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea. Adams

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
On the Korean War. Quoted in  Joseph Goulden Korea (1992).

It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.

-Adams, Charles Francis
  Despatch to Earl Russell during the Civil War, 5 Sep. Quoted in C F  Adams Charles Francis  Adams (1900), ch.17.

I am really persuaded that if we were to inquire of all the Cities which†have fallen by Siege into the Power of new Masters, who it was that subjected and overcame them, they would tell you, the Architect; and that they were strong enough to have despised the armed Enemy, but not to withstand the Shocks of the Engines, the Violence of the Machines and the Force of other Instruments of War with whichthe Architect, distressed, demolished and ruinated them.On the contrary, they would inform you that their greatest Defense lay in the Art and Assistance of the Architect.

-Alberti, Leon Battista
^2  Architecttura (translated by James Leoni,1755).

We had won† I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  On the end of  World War II. Gather Together In My Name, prologue.

Make love, not war.

-Anonymous
Flower Power movement, mid-1960s.

I have learnt from bitter experience that when the armchair theorists and the Whitehall generals start talking of a surgical war, it is time to run for cover.

-Ashdown, Baron
  Referring to plans for the Gulf  War. In the Sunday Times, 27  Jan.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

-Atkinson, Brooks
Once Around the Sun.

When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Unknown Citizen'.

A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Of the first post- World War I Parliament. Quoted in  J M Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919).

Let us not be deceivedöwe are today in the midst of a cold war.

-Baruch, Bernard Mannes
  Address to the South Carolina legislature,16  Apr, using an expression suggested to him by editor Herbert Bayard Swope.

The cold war isgetting warmer.

-Baruch, Bernard Mannes
  Address to a Senate committee.

   I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'American Names'.

I've never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

-Bennett, Alan
  FortyYears On (published1969), act1.

Just foraword'neutrality'öaword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedöjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.

-Bethmann Hollweg,Theobald von
  On Britain's reaction to the German invasion of neutral Belgium, 4  Aug. Quoted in British Documents on the Origins of the War1898^1914 (1926), vol.11.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Social Insurance and  Allied Services, pt.7.

The most urgent tasks in Britain, once war is over, are, on the one hand, the making of a common attack on the giant evils of Want, Disease,Ignorance and Squalor, and on the other hand, the re-equipping of British industry.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  Full Employment in a Free Society.

The L is a man of war: the L is his name.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDExodus15:3.

Saul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions† I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel1:23^7.

   Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 27:3^4.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.