No War Quotes

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

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

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

The assault on Malta will cost us many casualties...but...I consider it absolutely essential for the future development of the war. If we take Malta, Libya will be safe.

Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]

It's time to bury the war hatchet and to forget where it lies

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

[Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

Fight to the last gasp.

I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.