War Quotes

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end of World War II.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

War is a defeat for humanity.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.