War Quotes

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.

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Europe cannot survive another world war.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War is failure of diplomacy.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

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.