War Quotes

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

If not us, who? And if not now, when?

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.

When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

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

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.

A battle that you win cancels all your mistakes.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

But scientists on both sides of the iron curtain played a very significant role in maintaining the momentum of the nuclear arms race throughout the four decades of the Cold War.

Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

God is on the side with the best artillery

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.