Quotes About War

Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.

When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm