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The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. -- James Madison
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know. -- Thomas Aquinas
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -- George Washington
When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden. -- Robert Fisk
For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. -- Adolf Hitler
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist. -- Tony Blair
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many. -- Thomas Jefferson
On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war. -- Lewis Blaine Hershey
War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it. -- Barbara Holland
Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising. -- Charles Krauthammer
If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war. -- Shannon L. Alder
The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress. -- Rand Paul
No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real. -- Radley Balko
The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. -- Adolf Hitler
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people. -- Eugene V. Debs
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty? -- Preston Sturges
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. -- Ted Cruz
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. -- Herbert Hoover
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war. -- Mike Lee
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war. -- Rand Paul
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness. -- Alexander Haig
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald Reagan
Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. -- Ferdinand Lassalle
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution. -- Kenzaburo Oe
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal. -- Val Kilmer
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives. -- George William Norris
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people. -- Ian MacKaye
Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. -- Bertolt Brecht

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