Quotes About War

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

The president can't tell you what we got. I'll tell you what the world got. The world has a burgeoning nuclear power that didn't, as the Soviets, say "we might defend ourselves in a war."

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

I know firsthand what a vote to authorize war means to the lives of American families.

The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

When there are elections, people tend to vote for peace. They don't vote for war. So Americans want to promote those principles around the world.

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I don't really get much flack for it.

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

In the question of peace, people spoke up and demonstrated for peace and against the threat of war, the threat of atomic war.

I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.