Quotes About War

In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind.

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.