Quotes About Conflict

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

In any war, people will pay the price.

The only good Indian is a dead Indian

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.