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Quotes About War

Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich.
~ Ian Kershaw
Wars were connected by arms manufacturers, the same arms manufacturers who made the guns used in robberies, who made the guns used by crazy people in America when they when on the rampage in a shopping centre or hamburger restaurant. So already you had connection between hamburgers and dictators. Start from there and the thing just grew and grew.
~ Ian Rankin
War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
~ Ian Rankin
The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The
~ Ian W. Toll
He thought reporters a nuisance and at first refused to deal with them at all. It was said, half-jokingly, that King would have liked to say nothing until the end of the war, and then release a two-word communiqué: "We won
~ Ian W. Toll
Things were so bad at Pearl Harbor," Seaman Mason recalled, "that even the chiefs were working.
~ Ian W. Toll
Dicho del Profeta Verdad Decir la verdad a los injustos es la mejor de las guerras santas.
~ Idries Shah
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
~ Unknown
Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?
~ Colman McCarthy
Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.
~ Colman McCarthy
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.
~ Colson Whitehead
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
~ Unknown
Of our world of war, we are ignorant of our insignificance in the universes.
~ Unknown
Eh bien, soit! Que ma guerre contre l'homme s'éternise, puisque chacun reconnait dans l'autre sa propre dégradation... puisque les deux sont ennemis mortels. Que je doive remporter une victoire désastreuse ou succomber, le combat sera beau: moi, seul, contre l'humanité.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
~ Conan O'Brien
Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
~ Conan O'Brien
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
~ Conan O'Brien
You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein Because he hates America he loves mistresses and he wears a beret. He is French people.
~ Conan O'Brien
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The foreign ministers were unsettled too by the buzz around the report's insistence on a new diplomatic push that would involve talking to Iran—a kind of regional solution to the Iraq problem. They were rightly suspicious that the Iranians would use their enhanced diplomatic perch that would come with U.S. consultations to further their influence in the region, and the ministers wanted a promise that the United States was not about to sell out to Tehran to end the war in Iraq.
~ Condoleezza Rice
His generals were ready; his sons were. It remained to be seen whether the Arab nations were ready to meet them in war. In their arrogance, they had invited annihilation.
~ Conn Iggulden
Enjoy the peaceful moments, Zhenjin. When the fighting starts, this will be a pleasant memory.
~ Conn Iggulden
The Chin have held us down for a long time, but that is over. We ride to war, brother.
~ Conn Iggulden