If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.
Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.
How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas.
But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.
I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decisions in primary after primary after primary.
We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
Government is waging war against the people.
Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.