War Quotes

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

I waged war against my feelings.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Anyway, there were more after the war than before.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.