Quotes About Conflict

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total.

If there's Cold War, no 'Star Wars' in China.

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.

That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

When people are wary about fighting on the ground, I have a more difficult time.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

People in Washington, D.C., may not be paying that much attention to what's happening in Chechnya, but people in Riyadh and Amman and elsewhere are.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.