Quotes About War

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.