No War Quotes

If I wanted to be bored by 6,000 pages of unreadable dreck, I'd read War and Peace four times.

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

The problem of an atomic war must not be confused by minor problems such as Communism versus capitalism. An atomic war would kill everyone, left, right, or center.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

After victory, you have more enemies.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Attention, Texas Brigade! The eyes of General Lee are upon you. Forward, march!

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

Star Wars is mythology. Its like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. Its the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

Every US President has to have a war.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity... then you are going to be surprised.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

There is nothing so revered yet so reviled as war; for even as it brings out the worst in men, it also brings out the best in them.

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides in six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Oh, how wretched should I be at this moment, if I had not made my peace with God.