Quotes About War

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory) Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron)

You can't tell me that all the wars we are fighting are in America's national security interest.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.