War Quotes

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy.

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.