Quotes About Conflict

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

Our goal is not to win the war, we have already done it. Our goal is to find a just solution, and we are unanimous on the ways to find it.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Near a war is always not very near.