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Quotes About War

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
~ Karl Von Clausewitz
War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.
~ Northrop Frye
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
~ Norman Cousins
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
~ Boake Carter
The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
~ W. Averell Harriman
Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.
~ Mike Ferguson
I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.
~ Zoe Saldana
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
~ Cliff Stearns
I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.
~ Lindsey Graham
The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!
~ Paddy Chayefsky
The Iraq war was not necessary.
~ Scott McClellan
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
~ Ken Mehlman
Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms And flames laid waste our world, All that was left me was a little garden And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.
~ Stefan Zweig
Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.
~ Oswald Pohl
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them
~ Thomas Jefferson
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
~ Martin Luther
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
~ Howard Nemerov
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.
~ John McCain
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.
~ Robert Gilpin
The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time....This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.
~ Ariel Sharon
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.
~ Bill Ayers
I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral.
~ Bill Moyers