Famous Quotes
- The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
- Richard M. Nixon on War
- The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
- John Le Carre on War
- The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
- George Wald on War
- The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
- Thomas Hobbes on War
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Virginia Woolf on War
- The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington on War
- The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
- George W. Bush on War
- The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
- John Maynard Keynes on War
- The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
- The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
- George W. Bush on War
- The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
- Thomas Friedman on War
- The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman on War
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- George Orwell on War
- The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
- George McGovern on War
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
- James Madison on War
- The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
- Jon Meacham on War
- The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
- Rahm Emanuel on War
- The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
- Sophia Loren on War
- The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
- Hamid Karzai on War
- The first casualty when war comes is truth.
- Hiram Johnson on War
- The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
- Harry Browne on War
- The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
- The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
- P. J. O'Rourke on War
- The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
- Ramsey Clark on War
- The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
- Lester B. Pearson on War
- The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
- Jim Ramstad on War
- The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.
- John Podhoretz on War
- The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
- Bob Schieffer on War
- The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
- The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- William Westmoreland on War
- The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on War
- The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
- Desiderius Erasmus on War
- The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
- Clara Zetkin on War
- The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
- Barbara Corcoran on War
- The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Aldous Huxley on War
- The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
- Thomas Jefferson on War
- The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
- Adrienne Rich on War
- The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
- Albert Camus on War
- The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
- Washington Irving on War
- The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on War
- The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton on War
- The only defensible war is a war of defense.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on War
- The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on War
- The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.
- George C. Marshall on War
- The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
- The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on War
- The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
- Lech Walesa on War
- The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
- Charles Evans Hughes on War
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