War Quotes

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.