Quotes About War

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

I believe demolishing Hussein's military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

Wake up ! This ain't war between good and evil anymore.This is war between good people for their respective survival.Whoever lose in this war, will be remembered as the evil one.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

Había una guerra, pero, como siempre, la dirigencia colombiana aceptaba como legítima toda violencia que se ejerciera desde el poder y condenaba como criminal toda violencia que se opusiera a las autoridades, incluso en legítima defensa, aunque la actuación de las autoridades fuera evidentemente injusta.

I love the Americans because they love liberty, and I love them for the noble efforts they made in the last war.

One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead