Quotes About War

In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

When war becomes the most profitable course of action, we can certainly expect more of it.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.