Quotes About Conflict

Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

Now, gentlemen, let tomorrow be their Waterloo!

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.