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Quotes About War

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
~ George S. McGovern
I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
~ Harry Patch
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.
~ Tupac Shakur
I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.
~ Charles XII of Sweden
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
~ J. D. Hayworth
No soldier ever really survives a war.
~ Audie Murphy
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
~ Ralph Steadman
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate
~ Marvin Gaye
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
~ James Madison
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
~ John F. Kennedy
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
~ Neville Chamberlain
I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
~ Vinnie Paz
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
~ Anna Louise Strong
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
~ Anthony Eden
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
~ Franklin Pierce
Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
~ William Shakespeare
Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~ A. Philip Randolph
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
~ Smedley Butler
All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.
~ Yasser Arafat
We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
~ John Yoo
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
~ John Yoo
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
~ Bianca Jagger
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
~ F. Murray Abraham
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
~ Winston Churchill