War Quotes on Conflict & Humanity – Page 8 | GloryQuotes

I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march.

Al Sharpton

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Lord Robertson

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Joseph Heller

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

James Lovelock

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.

The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.

Patrick J. Kennedy

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

Antonia Fraser

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.

Isaac Rosenberg

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Warren E. Burger

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Gijs de Vries

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

Dean Acheson

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Jessica Savitch

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

Ludwig von Mises

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

Golda Meir

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.

Nick Lampson

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Lester B. Pearson

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

John McCain

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

Herman Kahn

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

David Herbert Lawrence

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

Stephen Harper

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

John Abizaid

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

A. J. P. Taylor

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Kim Campbell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.

John Burroughs

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

A. J. P. Taylor

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Andrei Platonov

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Eamon de Valera

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Rich Lowry

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

Antonio Tabucchi

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

George Steiner

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Christopher Shays

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

Robert Trout

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Moshe Sharett

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Robert Trout

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Rahm Emanuel