No War Quotes

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

No. That's someone else's business. Quagmire is - I don't do quagmires.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

He [John McCain] hit me - he's not a war hero.

Just as we won the Cold War in part by exposing the evils of communism and the virtues of free markets, so, too, must we take on the ideology of radical Islam.

We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of readiness and in terms of everything else. We are not capable like we have to be.

I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything?

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.

I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

John McCain was a prisoner of war.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

I'm not saying that George W. Bush did everything right. But even if you take a skeptical view of his Iraq war, [Barack] Obama made the more serious error of withdrawing his troops from Iraq early.

One of the things that most people aren't aware of when they think of the Civil War is the number of people and associated animals. (Armies) weren't mechanized. They had to rely on horses and mules.

Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

He that makes a good war makes a good peace.

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.

Freedom of speech is one of the greatest American liberties, and I hope this pardon serves as a reminder of the precious freedoms we are fighting to preserve as we continue to wage the war on terror.

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror... so today I vetoed it.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

Some call this civil war; others call it emergency -- I call it pure evil.

Foreign fighters are travelling into Iraq to make it a front line in the war on terror. And I would rather defeat them there than face them in our own country.