Quotes About War

The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.