Quotes About War

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.

I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.

In war, discipline can do more than fury.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

I don't object to its being called "McNamara's war." I think it is a very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.