Famous Quotes
- More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on War
- Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.
- Henry A. Wallace on War
- Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.
- Jason Mraz on War
- My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
- Thomas Hardy on War
- My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
- Aung San Suu Kyi on War
- My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
- My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
- Haruki Murakami on War
- My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
- Arlen Specter on War
- My father was in the First World War.
- Doris Lessing on War
- My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- George Washington on War
- My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.
- My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
- Roseanne Barr on War
- My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.
- Thomas Friedman on War
- My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
- Leonardo DiCaprio on War
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on War
- My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
- Jane Seymour on War
- My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
- Twyla Tharp on War
- My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
- Buffalo Bill on War
- My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
- Herbert Read on War
- My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
- My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
- Thom Yorke on War
- My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
- Wilfred Owen on War
- My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
- Lech Walesa on War
- Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
- Germaine Greer on War
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill on War
- Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
- Sarah Palin on War
- No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
- George S. Patton on War
- No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Henry A. Kissinger on War
- No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
- Phyllis Schlafly on War
- No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
- Richard M. Nixon on War
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- Henry Miller on War
- No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
- Hillary Clinton on War
- No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
- Pope Paul VI on War
- No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
- Calvin Coolidge on War
- No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
- Judy Biggert on War
- No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
- Muqtada Al Sadr on War
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on War
- No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, 'Ode to Lovely War,' and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn't sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.
- Jane Seymour on War
- No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.
- John Boehner on War
- Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
- Pope Benedict XVI on War
- Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
- King Hussein I on War
- Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
- Mitt Romney on War
- Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on War
- Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.
- Andrew Jackson on War
- Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
- George Orwell on War
- Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
- James Madison on War
- Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
- Conan O'Brien on War
- Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
- Herbert Hoover on War
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