Quotes About War

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The possibility of a war under the current circumstances is not far-fetched and there is some evidence for that.

Police do not belong in war zones.

It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

It's an important fact of life, war.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

War is an old, old plant on this earth, and a natural history of it would have to tell us under what soil conditions it grows, where it plays havoc, and how it is eliminated.

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes. It may save the state, but it destroys the citizen.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

Sanctions are not diplomacy. They are a precursor to war and an embarrassment to a country that pays lip service to free trade.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.