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Quotes About War

The war against terrorism is one we must win.
~ Lisa Murkowski
Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.
~ Plutarch
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
~ Dick Cheney
I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.
~ Donald Trump
One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!
~ Romain Rolland
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.
~ Mao Zedong
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
~ Douglas Hurd
I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops.
~ Stephen Lang
It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.
~ Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
~ William C. Kirby
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation's great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.
~ Richard Perle
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
~ Philip Gibbs
President Bush failed "miserably" at diplomacy, forcing the United States into war.
~ Tom Daschle
In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing is easy in war. Mistakes are always paid for in casualties and troops are quick to sense any blunder made by their commanders.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did not know anything about it.
~ Earl Hancock Ellis
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
~ Ed Ayres
We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
~ Sam Harris
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
~ Lily Tomlin
We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.
~ Richard Bach
It is time we admitted that we are not at war with "terrorism." We are at war with Islam.
~ Sam Harris
War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
~ Eddie Vedder