Quotes About War

My mother's brother was killed while clearing mines in 1945. Those are things that mark your childhood and they help explain why we are so devoted to European unity.

Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

Where have all the flowers gone

We don't really think that man is that immoral, we don't think that man of his own nature would run around...fighting wars and building napalm bombs...so maybe there's something else going on

Everyone had a Japanese maple, although after Pearl Harbor most of these were patriotically poisoned, ringbarked and extirpated.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive. And wehave no right to do that—we never have had, not since the creation of the world.

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism.

The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.