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Quotes About War

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
~ Immortal Technique
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
~ Alain Badiou
Why, of course, the people don't want war.
~ Hermann Goring
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
~ Otto von Bismarck
I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'
~ Richard Winters
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
~ Duke of Wellington
nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
~ Charles Bukowski
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
~ Mao Zedong
Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs
~ Michelle Alexander
War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.
~ Harry Patch
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.
~ Winston Churchill
Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.
~ Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
~ Robert McNamara
Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, nor more occasion for war.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Wars are not won by evacuations.
~ Winston Churchill
Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.
~ Vito Fossella
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
~ Haile Selassie
I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
~ Lord Byron
The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
~ James Madison
The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.
~ William Shakespeare
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
~ Hans Blix