Quotes About War

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

Now that Obama is at war in a 3rd country, does that mean he has to give back his Nobel Peace Prize?

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.