Tony Blair Quotes

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

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

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• President-elect Trump wants to win them if you're going to be involved in a war. I don't think he wants to be involved in war, but when we are, he wants to win.

  

  Jack Keane
  • War
  • Think
  • Win

• Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • War
  • Problem
  • Fighting

• Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

  

  Imran Khan
  • War
  • Because
  • Been

• Some men want war for sordid, others for idealistic, reasons; some for personal gain, others for impersonal principle. But most of those who consciously want war and accept it, and so help to create its 'inevitability,' want it in order to shift the locus of their problems.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Men
  • War
  • Help

• The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Great
  • Home
  • Experience

• An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Book
  • War
  • Opinion

• There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult-to begin a war and to end it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • War

• Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

  

  Bob Graham
  • War

• War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • War
  • Imagination
  • Moral

• I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Up
  • War
  • Bad

• I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.

  

  Jan de Bont

• Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

  

  William Penn
  • War
  • Peace
  • Inspiration

• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Ungrateful
  • Disloyal

• Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • April

• Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Art
  • Giving

• In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Given
  • April