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Quotes About War

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
~ Elton John
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
~ Fred Wilson
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?
~ Garry Wills
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
~ George W. Bush
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
~ J. C. Watts
For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
~ Alfred Nobel
It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
~ Robert E. Lee
Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.
~ Eduardo Galeano
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
~ James Forrestal
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
~ Bertolt Brecht
We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
~ David Letterman
A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.
~ David Oderberg
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
~ George McGovern
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
~ Sophocles
When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.
~ Joe Biden
I have to say I like Obama a lot. His record is the best. He's always been vocal about his opposition to the war in Iraq. Frankly, he seems very good in a lot of ways.
~ Fatima Bhutto
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
~ George Herbert
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
~ Gertrude Stein
We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.
~ Howard Dean