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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

— John Foster Dulles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

— Sun Tzu

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

— Louis Finkelstein

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

— Sun Tzu

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

— Charles Lindbergh

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

— John Randolph

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

— Phil Klay

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

— John G. Schmitz

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

— Bill Moyers

✗Opposing Perspectives

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

— John Mayer

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

— Thomas Mann