Quotes About War

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Near a war is always not very near.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom.

If the Nazis have been destroyed it's because America got into the war. They went for it and they got into the fight.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

The necessity of war, which among human actions is the most lawless, hath some kind of affinity with the necessity of law.

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war - a war for your opinions. And when your opinion is defeatedy our honesty should still cry triumph over that!

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.