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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

— Winston Churchill

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

— Sun Tzu

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

— Dennis Kucinich

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

— Mark Edwards

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 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

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

— Stanley Hauerwas

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.

— Robert M. Gates

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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