Quotes About War

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

I tell you I look forward with terror to her [Germany] making war upon us again in ten years.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win