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Quotes About War

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.
~ Janet Evanovich
War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
~ Jimmy Carter
Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.
~ Joshua
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
~ Noam Chomsky
Government is waging war against the people.
~ L. Neil Smith
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
~ Martha Gellhorn
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
~ Charley Reese
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
~ Thomas Paine
Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
~ Harvey Fierstein
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
~ H. L. Mencken
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
~ Glenn T. Seaborg
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
~ Hugo Black
The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City.
~ Van Jones
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: A government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way.
~ Henry Steele Commager
The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.
~ Joshua Landis
The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.
~ Judith Butler
[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.
~ Richard M. Nixon
From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.
~ Richard Cobden
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".
~ Steven Magee
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
~ Muhammad Ali