There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 8:8.

   They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 2:4.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought againstthe dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation12:7^9.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

-of)
  Speech, Berlin,  Aug.

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

-of)
  Attributed deathbed remark. Quoted in the House of Commons,16  Aug1945.

Every time I have asked us to go to war, I have hated it. I spent months trying to get Milosevic to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, delaying action while we negotiated endlessly.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference,15 Feb.

At every stage, we should seek to avoid war. But if the threat cannot be removed peacefully, please let us not fall for the delusion that it can be safely ignored.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference,15 Feb.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

-Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
  Draft of a new Catechism with F Hildebrandt, in Gesammelte Schriften, vol.3 (1947, translated by E Robinson and J Bowden in No Rusty Sword,1965).

   C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. It is magnificent, but it isn't war.

-Bosquet, Pierre
  On seeing the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava, 25 Oct. Quoted in Cecil Woodham Smith The Reason Why (1953), ch.12.

The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong timeöand with the wrong enemy.

-Bradley, Omar Nelson
At the Senate inquiry into proposals to escalate the Korean war into China, May.

Der Krieg findet immer einen Ausweg. War always finds a way. Brezhnev

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.6.

  Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watchöyet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.

-Bush, GeorgeW(alker)
  State of the Union  Address, 29  Jan.

It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.

-Bush,Vannevar
  Science is Not Enough.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Signs of the Times.

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

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Speech at Kettering, 3  Jul.

This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Speech on the signing of the Munich  Agreement, Heston airport, 30 Sep.

We should seek byall 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. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Speech in the House of Commons, 6 Oct.

This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by11o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

-Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville
  Radio broadcast, 3 Sep.

Guerre aux cha"  teaux, paix aux chaumie'  res. War to the castles, peace to the cottages.

-Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas
  Motto for the Revolution.

   The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.

-Child,Julia McWilliams
  On studying cookbooks dating back to the1400s in the Library of Congress. In Memory and Imagination, PBS  TV, 15  Aug. Chinese poet and civil servant about whom very little is known. He  wrote  a  series  of  three  poems  on  his  separation  from  his wife, the result of a posting to Beijing.