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Quotes About War

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.
~ James Buchanan
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
~ Benito Mussolini
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
~ Ezra Pound
War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.
~ Ernest Becker
I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.
~ Bum Phillips
Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
~ Adrian Carton de Wiart
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
~ I. F. Stone
If you want peace, understand war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse.
~ Jacque Fresco
Love is the answer, the spiritual solution that holds the power to end the war that rages within each of us.
~ Debbie Ford
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.
~ Michael Scott
Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by famine, riots, insurrection and war.
~ Robert McNamara
Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled
~ Hammurabi
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
~ Alexander H. Stephens
The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
~ David Ben-Gurion
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
~ Wilfred Owen
A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
~ Oscar Wilde
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
~ Scipio Africanus
Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.
~ Oswald Spengler