War Quotes

"Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty."

"War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations."

"I've been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the No-Fly Zone."

"Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor."

"The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war."

"In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform."

"The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism."

"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."

"There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda."

"The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy."

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

"The United States never lost a war or won a conference."

"I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war."

"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"

"The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain."

"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."

"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."

"There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."

"I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong. I don't know how to explain it more. It's universal. Some people are better at dealing with it, and they sleep with no pain - not pain, arguments. I've grown quite comfortable with being at war."

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport."

"No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons."

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."

"I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."

"Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war."

"War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent."

"A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head."

"It is important that we honor and remember the sacrifices of countless families in the mobilization to defeat fascism during World War II."

"The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers."

"I am against all war."

"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."

"My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war."

"I met Heinlein after 'The Forever War' had won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He shook my hand and said he loved the book so much, he'd read it three times."

"We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating."

"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"

"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

"There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'."

"War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway."

"Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music."

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

"I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. It's still a magnificent tank, and we designed it for the Cold War and Central Europe."

"The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."

"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

"War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means."

"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."

"If I liken the Pacific War to a football match, I can say to you that the first half is over, we have kicked off after the interval, and we are going to carry the ball into enemy territory for a smashing victory."