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This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
— George W. Bush
Also it isn't clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.
— Peter T. King
But men are funny about their wars, they act as if they own them, and perhaps they do, for I don't think women ever start them.
— Pippa Goldschmidt
I shall act as I think my duty requires.
— Patrick Henry
One cannot toss ambassadors back like bad fish," said Eugenides. "You treat them with care, or you'll find you've committed an act of war.
— Megan Whalen Turner
There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.
— Harry S. Truman
War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
— Leo Tolstoy
Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
— Robert McNamara
She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.
— Spencer Ellsworth
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
— George Orwell
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
— James Madison
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
— Henry A. Kissinger
When weak, act strong.
— Rick Riordan
A siege is an act of war.
— Noam Chomsky
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
— Sun Tzu
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
— Albert Einstein
Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
— Mandy Patinkin
Defense is the first act of war.
— Byron Katie
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.
— Robert Bourassa
War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.
— Anthony Marra
Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.
— Ann Coulter
War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.
— Stanley Hauerwas
War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known
— Thomas Hobbes
The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.
— Ivan Krastev
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— Thomas Aquinas
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
— J.G. Ballard
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.
— Sun Tzu
No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.
— Timothy Snyder
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.
— Reza Aslan
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
— Glenn T. Seaborg
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.
— Thucydides
The first act in the training of a warrior should be how to string his rifle and turn it into a guitar
— Agona Apell
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
— George Washington