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Quotes About War

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
~ Clare Short
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
~ John Milton
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.
~ Edward Abbey
Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
~ Robert Toombs
War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.
~ Hans von Seeckt
Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.
~ James Nasmyth
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism
~ Alex Salmond
One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.
~ Ernest Becker
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
~ Gerrit Smith
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
~ James Russell Lowell
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
~ Thornton Wilder
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
~ George W. Bush
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
~ Murray Rothbard
I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
~ Aeschylus
The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.
~ George Meredith
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.
~ Greg Proops
It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.
~ David Roberts
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.
~ Mort Walker
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
~ Gerhard Richter