War Quotes

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

War is horrible because it strangles youth.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.