Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.