- Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
- Jon Meacham on War
- Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts.
- Mick Jagger on War
- Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell on War
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton on War
- Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
- Yasser Arafat on War
- Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
- Kin Hubbard on War
- Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
- Jawaharlal Nehru on War
- Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza on War
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- George Bernard Shaw on War
- Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
- Baruch Spinoza on War
- Peace is produced by war.
- Pierre Corneille on War
- Peace is the happy natural state of man war is corruption and disgrace.
- James Thomson on War
- Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
- Victor Hugo on War
- Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
- Julien Benda on War
- Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
- People always make war when they say they love peace.
- David Herbert Lawrence on War
- People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
- George McGovern on War
- People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
- Anna Kendrick on War
- People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
- Otto Von Bismarck on War
- People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
- John Bolton on War
- Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
- John Bolton on War
- Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
- Newt Gingrich on War
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill on War
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill on War
- Politics is the womb in which war develops.
- Karl Von Clausewitz on War
- Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Zedong on War
- Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Zedong on War
- President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat.
- Kevin Costner on War
- Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
- Dennis Hastert on War
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