War Quotes

• I'm sure, out of the context here of Stanley Levison's relationship with the Jewish liberal forces, that had made contributions. I remember one such contribution before they moved from Montgomery. An associate in the real estate business with Stanley had lost a son in the war, and she wanted to do something in memory of him. So, she made available certain monies to be used by the emerging leadership there in Montgomery. I'm sure other individuals did.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Real
  • Business
  • She

• It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • War
  • Breed
  • Swords

• Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Principle
  • Lightning

• England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

  

  Melina Mercouri
  • Friends
  • English
  • Greek

• We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Country
  • War
  • Cold

• We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • People
  • Stop
  • Violence

• For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

  

  Jerry Speyer
  • People
  • War

• War will pass when injustice passes. Never before, unless hope leaves the world.

  

  Agnes Repplier
  • World
  • War
  • Hope

• What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? O yes!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • War
  • Peace
  • Joyful

• The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Christian

• There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Reality
  • Refugee

• For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

  

  David Broder
  • Time
  • War
  • History

• WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

  

  Jemima Khan
  • War
  • Military

• 'Sounds impressive. And expensive.''Not at all.' Danziger shook his head firmly. 'It will cost, all told, only a little over three million dollars, less than the cost of two hours of war, and a better buy.'

  

  Jack Finney
  • War

• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • War
  • High
  • Responsibility

• When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • War
  • Wisdom

• With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • America
  • Free
  • Law

• Young people in college were not even born when the Berlin Wall fell, and so they are not really cognizant of the Cold War and what that meant. Now, truly, the genie is out of the bottle and you have the possibility that terrorists ... could be stealing a bomb or buying a bomb

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • College
  • Wall

• You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • May
  • War

• So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • War
  • Little Woman

• Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Up
  • World
  • School

• Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • American
  • War

• George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • World
  • May
  • Hero

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