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Quotes About War

The European Union Treaty... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.
~ Helmut Kohl
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
~ Lindsey Graham
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.
~ Sun Yat-sen
I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.
~ John Ford
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.
~ Willy Brandt
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
~ Enoch Powell
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
~ John Sedgwick
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
~ Joseph Stalin
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
~ Lester B. Pearson
Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
~ Zach Wamp
I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.
~ John Conyers
People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
~ John Bolton
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.
~ Voltaire
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
~ John Ray
During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.
~ Fritz Haber
It doesn't take a military genius to see we'll all be crispy critters after World War III.
~ Al Yankovic
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.
~ Ronald Reagan
Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.
~ Audie Murphy
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
~ Helen Keller