No War Quotes

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics.

New Rule: The people of America who were most in favor of the Iraq War must now go there and fight it.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

We in the west walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the cold war and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again there will be consequences.

I think you got to keep in mind that Obama was raised among Muslims, and I think he really does not want to use the word war on terror because he was raised in that community.

President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

Obviously, we will respond to the concerns of any member of Congress. The government of Uzbekistan has been a good partner in the war on terrorism.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those who don't, its meaning can never be fully understood!

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

Blood is the god of war's rich livery.

I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us, in the administration, that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

World War Z is out today. The big zombie movie. The trailer looks scary. You see hordes of bodies climbing and rolling over each other. It's like Black Friday at the mall.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

The Civil War was fought, in a sense, over whether that sentence - all men are created equal - is to be taken literally. And the southerners in the 1850s argued that it was not.

If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.

Bush and his commanders in the war on terrorism are willing to waste non-terrorists to kill terrorists. Right or wrong, that is not caring about the dignity of every life.

The one foreign policy issue that Donald Trump took a stand on was that he was against the Iraq war. Even though it wasn't true, he kept saying again and again and again.

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up.

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Civil War was recorded by the original line-up

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.