Quotes About Conflict

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

War makes monsters out of men.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.