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If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war. -- Suzanne Collins
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. -- John Adams
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. -- Scott McClellan
It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war. -- John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The Kosovo campaign was a just and necessary war. And I believe that Blair - of whom I have many criticisms - in this case showed real determination in conducting it. -- Margaret Thatcher
In the American political lexicon, 'change' always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power. -- Ron Paul
The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear. -- Dennis Kucinich
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. -- Major Owens
In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized. -- Suzanne Collins
The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control. -- Suzanne Collins
The Iraq war was not necessary. -- Scott McClellan
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. -- Robert Byrd
While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice. -- Gresham Barrett
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. -- Ernest Hemingway
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. -- Ernest Hemingway
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then. -- Sharon Stone
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations. -- Stanley Hauerwas
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer. -- Paul Berg
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war. -- Ludwig Quidde
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. -- Mao Zedong
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. -- Thomas Aquinas
I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans. -- Phil Klay
I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future. -- Sam Harris
Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary. -- Giulio Andreotti
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. -- Jimmy Carter
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. -- Abraham Lincoln
War is just to those to whom war is necessary. -- Livy
To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war. -- Juan Manuel Santos
To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong. -- T.R. Fehrenbach
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary. -- Mike Hoffman
Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
They've been taught by too many that this war was necessary when it isn't. -- Ron Paul
Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip. -- Jesse H. Jones
To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money. -- Gian Giacomo Trivulzio
In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support. -- Juan Manuel Santos
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security. -- Gustave de Molinari
I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war. -- Jason Jones
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource. -- Thomas Jefferson
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. -- Cesare Beccaria
The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it. -- Benjamin Franklin
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today? -- Joseph Goebbels
ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe. -- Ted Cruz
My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms. -- Livy
As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...' -- Christopher Flynn
I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while. -- James Lovelock
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it. -- Walter Lippmann
We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq. -- Douglas Feith

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