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My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.
~ Tom DeLay
As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.
~ Voltaire
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
~ Ezra Pound
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
~ George B. McClellan
We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.
~ Frank Knox
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
~ George Will
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Found Alive! First World War a Mistake!
~ Spike Milligan
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
~ Romain Rolland
The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
~ Jimmy Doolittle
That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
~ Robert McNamara
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
~ Walter Mosley
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
~ Wilhelm Keitel
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
~ Alan Greenspan
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
~ Colin Powell
There's no such thing as an anti-war film.
~ Francois Truffaut
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
~ Murray Kempton
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
~ Stafford Cripps
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
~ Thomas Paine
Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
~ Bertolt Brecht
This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.
~ Andrew Jackson
The war on Christmas. This is the most ridiculous right wing talking point I have ever lived through.The idea is that liberals want to get rid of Christmas.
~ Tucker Carlson