No War Quotes

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

War is never cheap or easy.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

When war begins, then hell openeth.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

Now the Taliban will pay a price.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

The War That Will End War.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace.

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free.

Youth is the time when hearts are large, And stirring wars Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn To the blade it draws.

... a war always ends.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

One should have insight into this world of dreams that passes in the twinkling of an eye.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.