War Quotes

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan continued. Mr. Obama would be forced back into a war on terror if terrorist groups pull off enough damaging or frightening attacks to force this issue to the fore.

Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation and those nations that proliferate with chemical, biological and nuclear type devices, because that can cause the most catastrophic results.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

We can't be politically correct - right or left - in the war on terrorism. Period.

Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much that needs to be done to win the war of ideas in the Muslim world and beyond.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.