Quotes About Conflict

We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price.

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Peace is defined as harmony among those who are divided. When, therefore, we end the civil war within our nature and cultivate peace within ourselves, we become at peace.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad

We must take the profit out of war.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.