Quotes About War

A nation that sends its women to fight its wars is not worth defending.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Internal security means something. It means war against your own population.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine's wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: 'Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

If America were in a just war I'd volunteer for the front line. I'd do the shuffling and win the war.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Disarmament by war and democracy by occupation are difficult prospects.