In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
In time of war the laws are silent.