Quotes About War

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

It is clear before God and man that the entire war on HIV and AIDS has not been waged with any degree of piety, responsibility and care.

Any peace is better than any war

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.