War Quotes
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War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
Elihu Root
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Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
Scott Westerfeld
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It was in World War I that the age-old certainties were lost. Until then aristocrats and capitalists felt secure in their position, and even socialists felt certain in their faith. It was never to be so again. The Age of Uncertainty began.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
Victor Hugo
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
Victor Hugo
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
Bruce Jackson
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There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.
Ernest Bevin
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In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.
Van Jones
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To win that war with radical Islamic extremists we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
Sarah Palin
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.
William Shakespeare
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Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.
John Chamberlain
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A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.
Frank Whittle
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Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Albert Camus
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My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theater business, management of men.
William Butler Yeats
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The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
John Barrasso
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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
Michael Leunig
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
Tilda Swinton
