I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.