Quotes About War

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.