"No power has ever won complete and absolute victory." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Because of war, old age creeps up on you. Of Joshua, after waging war with thirty-one kings, it is said: And Joshua became old and stricken in years." ~~ Tanchuma
"Are you for us or for our adversaries? " ~~ Joshua (Yehoshua) 5:13
"A hero is only revealed in combat." ~~ Musar Hapilosofim
"If a man means to kill you, stike first!" ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"In a war stay where you are, in famine shift your ground!" ~~ Sifre
"The side that breaks a truce during a war will lose." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav
"When a man’s ways please Him, the Lord causes even his enemies to make peace with him. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 16:7
"Who is a hero? The man that turns an enemy into a friend." ~~ Avot Derabbi Nathan
"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. " ~~ Albert Einstein
"Even on the threshold of war, we [Jews] are bidden to begin in no other way than with peace, for it is written: “When you draw near a city to fight, first offer it peace.”" ~~ Midrash Leviticus R. 9
"War is a bad and contemptible thing, but people at war are sometimes better than in everyday life." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
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