Famous Quotes
- We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on War
- We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
- Howard Zinn on War
- We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
- We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
- Doc Hastings on War
- We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill on War
- We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
- Harry S. Truman on War
- We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
- Ronald Reagan on War
- We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
- Ann Coulter on War
- We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
- Neville Chamberlain on War
- We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
- Kevin Costner on 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 on War
- We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
- William Westmoreland on War
- We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.
- Margaret Cho on War
- We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
- Jon Huntsman, Jr. on War
- We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
- Barack Obama on War
- We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.
- Ann Coulter on War
- We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
- James P. Hoffa on War
- We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
- Barack Obama on War
- We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
- Warren Buffett on War
- Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
- Mao Zedong on War
- Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
- George H. W. Bush on War
- Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
- Thom Yorke on War
- What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
- Simone Weil on War
- What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
- Robert E. Lee on War
- What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on War
- What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
- Stephen King on War
- What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
- David Cameron on War
- What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
- Jonathan Sacks on War
- What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
- Wendell Phillips on War
- What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
- L. Neil Smith on War
- What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
- Aldous Huxley on War
- What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau on War
- What is more immoral than war?
- Marquis De Sade on War
- What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
- What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
- Benjamin Spock on War
- What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.
- Louis Farrakhan on War
- What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
- Bertolt Brecht on War
- What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
- Ambrose Bierce on War
- What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved - a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable.
- Iain Duncan Smith on War
- What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.
- Dennis Miller on War
- When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
- Daisaku Ikeda on War
- When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
- When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
- George McGovern on War
- When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
- When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
- Cindy Sheehan on War
- When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.
- Jarvis Cocker on War
- When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
- George McGovern on War
- When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
- Jimmy Carter on War
- When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
- Gavin DeGraw on War
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