War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 10 | GloryQuotes

But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war.

Douglas Hurd

If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.

Howard Fineman

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Julian Bond

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Stephen Gardiner

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

Alex Morrison

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

George S. Patton

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

Jim Lehrer

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

Ron Reagan

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

Bill Shuster

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

J. William Fulbright

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

Ric Keller

Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

Paul Tsongas

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Barbara Castle

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

William Faulkner

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

William Westmoreland

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Charles Inglis

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Bruce Jackson

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

Howard Finster

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Eamon de Valera

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

John Linder

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

William Tecumseh Sherman

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Gerhard Schroder

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Tom Daschle

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Anne Sullivan Macy

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Herman Kahn

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.

Francis Parker Yockey

My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism.

Tom DeLay

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Townsend Harris

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Neil Gaiman

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.

Townsend Harris

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

Jerry Bruckheimer

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

Tony Blair