War Quotes

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

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.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

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.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

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.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

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.

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

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.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

War would end if the dead could return.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?