Quotes About War

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.

All the people have gone to war leaving no interrogator to mind.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers - if only to become the kind of country that could no longer conceive of how that was possible.

I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace. [Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

All forces are a deterrent to and would be employed in a general war. Most of our forces could be employed in a limited war, if required

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.