No War Quotes

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.

The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.

Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing the route, knowing the soundness of your ship and the favour of the day.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery . . . is his natural and normal condition.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Today, shooting wars are won or lost before they start. If they are fought at all, they would be fought principally to confirm which side had won at the outset.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Kofi Annan's kangaroo court [is] a clear and present danger to the war on terror and to Americans fighting it all over the world.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

I am at war with the obvious.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

Alabama soldiers, all I ask of you is to keep up with the Texans!

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

Why, of course, the people don't want war.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

War is just one more big government program.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

Drop Pants, Not Bombs. Break Dance, Not Hearts. Draft Beer, Not People. Make LOVE, Not WAR.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.