War Quotes

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.

In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

We are not at war against Islam.

We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.