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Quotes About Conflict

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.
~ Jay Leno
Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.
~ Joe Biden
War should always be the absolute last resort.
~ Joe Biden
A noisy man is always in the right.
~ William Cowper
You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.
~ Todd Rokita
Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.
~ Terry Pratchett
We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.
~ Joe Klein
To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?
~ John Dingell
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.
~ John F. Kennedy
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
~ John F. Kennedy
I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.
~ Jeffrey Dunn
There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.
~ Steven Knight
There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.
~ John F. Kerry
There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.
~ John F. Kerry
Never go to war unless your willing to win.
~ John G. Schmitz
There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
~ John Henry Newman
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
~ John Hodgman
This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.
~ John Dos Passos
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
~ Will Rogers
The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.
~ John McCain
But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.
~ John McCain
Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.
~ John McCain