Famous Quotes
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson on War
- It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
- Douglas MacArthur on War
- It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
- Herbert Hoover on War
- It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
- Elihu Root on War
- It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
- Harry Browne on War
- It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
- Robert E. Lee on War
- It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
- Chief Joseph on War
- It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
- Fred Woodworth on War
- It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
- It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
- Vanessa Kerry on War
- It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
- Chris Kyle on War
- It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
- Tom Hiddleston on War
- It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
- Major R. Owens on War
- It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
- George McGovern on War
- It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
- Julie Bowen on War
- It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
- Jodie Foster on War
- It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
- Alan Dershowitz on War
- It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, 'This is not a criminal act,' not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.
- Dick Cheney on War
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
- Isaac Asimov on War
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
- James Lovelock on War
- Killing is the payoff of war.
- Morley Safer on War
- Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
- Curtis LeMay on War
- Law is always better than war.
- Laws are silent in time of war.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on War
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus on War
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
- Bernard Baruch on War
- Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
- Henry Louis Gates on War
- Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
- William Alexander Henry on War
- Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
- Bianca Jagger on War
- Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
- B. H. Liddell Hart on War
- Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
- David Herbert Lawrence on War
- Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
- Miguel De Cervantes on War
- Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin on War
- Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.
- Meir Kahane on War
- Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken on War
- Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
- Harlan Coben on War
- Making peace is harder than making war.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on War
- Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
- Gerry Adams on War
- Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on War
- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy on War
- Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
- John Foster Dulles on War
- Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on War
- Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on War
- May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
- Daniel Boone on War
- Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
- Jeff Goodell on War
- Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
- Daisaku Ikeda on War
- Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
- Tony Blair on War
- Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
- Elizabeth I on War
- Morality is contraband in war.
- Mahatma Gandhi on War
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