Quotes About War

Ronald Reagan, the greatest president that ever lived, he had a quote that sums this up nicely: If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with.

That's why so many people want to be victims today. So they don't have to accept the burden of being raised without historical calamity—without war or famine. They want an excuse for the fact they're still not happy.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

Let me educate you In one short sentence. War has an appetite For human goodness but it won't touch the bad.

a battle-scarred veteran, bowed with age, would begin to remember the martial deeds of his youth and prime and be overcome as the past welled up in his wintry heart.

So they duly arrived in their grim war-graith and gear at the hall, and, weary from the sea, stacked wide shields of the toughest hardwood against the wall

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.

I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.