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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

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.

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.