War Quotes

• I've always been a Civil War buff. In fact, the ships that always fascinated me the most were the ironclads, because they were the start of an era.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • War

• One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Science

• Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Military
  • Red

• We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Art
  • War
  • Body

• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • World
  • Hope
  • Reason

• War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.

  

  Carlos Saavedra Lamas
  • Country
  • War
  • Crime

• Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Death
  • Slavery

• War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Violence

• The days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Long
  • Past
  • Culture

• There is no linguistic war in Montreal.

  

  Pierre Moreau
  • War

• Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • Up
  • Health
  • Competition

• The one who confidently looks forward to an eternal reward for his efforts in mortality is constantly sustained through his deepest trials. When he is disappointed in love, he does not commit suicide. When loved ones die, he doesn’t despair; when he loses a coveted contest, he doesn’t falter; when war and destruction dissipate his future, he doesn’t sink into a depression. He lives above his world and never loses sight of the goal of his salvation.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • Future
  • Die

• But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust between people and political leaders crumbles away as surely as night follows day.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Night

• In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

  

  Pierre Laval
  • War
  • Victory

• The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • War

• When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

  

  Don Kardong
  • World
  • School
  • War

• If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Job
  • Best

• The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fighting
  • Start

• I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

  

  Andry Rajoelina
  • People
  • War

• I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it was 1942. We went down into the cellar of our house, and when we came up, I remember seeing all the glass on the floor where all the windows had been shaken out by the bombs.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • War
  • Drug

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