Famous Quotes
- I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
- Harold Pinter on War
- I was drafted during the Korean War.
- Clint Eastwood on War
- I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
- Julia Child on War
- I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
- Norman Schwarzkopf on War
- I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. on War
- I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
- George McGovern on War
- I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
- Robert Walpole on War
- I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
- Shel Silverstein on War
- I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
- Francois Rabelais on War
- I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
- John Le Carre on War
- I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
- Jefferson Davis on War
- I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
- I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
- George McGovern on War
- I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!
- Kinky Friedman on War
- I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
- Richard Branson on War
- I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
- Haruki Murakami on War
- I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks wrote this book in so many different voices. There are about forty or so. It's incredible. When I finish 'World War Z' I'm going to go back and start again on the 'Game of Thrones' series.
- Nathan Fillion on War
- I'm against all war.
- Puff Daddy on War
- I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern on War
- I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
- Gary Johnson on War
- I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
- John Wooden on War
- I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
- Harry Browne on War
- I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
- Larry Hagman on War
- I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on War
- I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.
- I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.
- Matthew Lesko on War
- I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
- Oliver Stone on War
- Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
- James A. Garfield on War
- If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.
- Dennis Prager on War
- If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
- James Lovelock on War
- If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
- If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
- Ulysses S. Grant on War
- If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
- Craig Ferguson on War
- If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- Theodore Roosevelt on War
- If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mahatma Gandhi on War
- If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- George Washington on War
- If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells on War
- If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
- Arlen Specter on War
- If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
- Alveda King on War
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- Virginia Woolf on War
- If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
- Cindy Sheehan on War
- If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
- Barry McCaffrey on War
- In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
- Gertrude Stein on War
- In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
- Stanislaw Lec on War
- In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
- Phyllis Schlafly on War
- In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
- Leo Tolstoy on War
- In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
- Arthur Henderson on War
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