Famous Quotes
- In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.
- Tony Blair on War
- 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 on War
- In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway on War
- In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on War
- In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
- Thomas Aquinas on War
- In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
- In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
- In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
- Jeff Goodell on War
- In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.
- Gene Tierney on War
- In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
- In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.
- Steven Spielberg on War
- In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
- Cyril Connolly on War
- In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
- In time of peace prepare for war.
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus on War
- In time of war the laws are silent.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on War
- In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.
- Isabel Allende on War
- In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill on War
- In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
- H. L. Mencken on War
- In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on War
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
- Julius Caesar on War
- In war, there are no winners.
- Ramman Kenoun on War
- In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on War
- In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
- Neville Chamberlain on War
- In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill on War
- In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill on War
- Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
- Michael Bloomberg on War
- Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.
- Shimon Peres on War
- It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
- Condoleezza Rice on War
- It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
- Lester B. Pearson on War
- It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.
- Rush Limbaugh on War
- It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.
- Arthur Henderson on War
- It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
- Michael Bloomberg on War
- It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
- Robert E. Lee on War
- It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
- Vladimir Nabokov on War
- It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
- Murray Rothbard on War
- It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on War
- It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein on War
- It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on War
- It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov on War
- It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
- George McGovern on War
- It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on War
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