"There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war." ― Miguel de Cervantes Topic(s): War More From Miguel de Cervantes "Alas! all music jars when the soul’s out of tune." "I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences." "Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it." More In War "The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."― Barack Obama "I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse."― Justin Cronin "In every war zone that I’ve been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know."― John le Carre