War Quotes

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.