Quotes About War

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end.

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.