"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Topic(s): War Tags: state More From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven." "The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature." "The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever." More In War "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves."― Albert Camus "War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."― George Washington "And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war."― Dana Rohrabacher