Quotes About Conflict

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

War is at best barbarism.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

A man's idee in a card game is war

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

War to me is the stupidest way of settling anything. The whole damn thing goes to pieces.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

I am a war president.

In love there are two evils: war and peace.