Quotes About War

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.