Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

We should seek by all 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 was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

War is like love it always finds a way.