No War Quotes

We have to risk a nuclear war in order to escape capitulation to Communism. For all I know, we may stumble into this terrible war.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

I see the reports of Anson Hunter's death have been greatly exaggerated... and I trust so are his war stories.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

Teach him to deny himself.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died.

Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

The Iraq war was not necessary.

I have a regret that the entire discussion [with El Chapo]... ignores its purpose, which was to try to contribute to this discussion about the policy in the War on Drugs.

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

We have put the Cold War behind us. We no longer count our divisions and our warheads. And I am Russia's first civilian defense minister in many centuries. We have become more pragmatic.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

I not only saw the possibility of nuclear war, I feared it very much. If they started a military conflagration, it would automatically lead to nuclear warfare.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

"Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

In the 80s, we were still living in a kind of Cold War environment.

In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.

The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

"Bobby Tom told me he’s not afraid of the Chargers’ defense." "Bobby Tom’ll tell you he’s not afraid of nuclear war, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in his opinion."

Women who had discovered pants, low-heeled shoes, and loose sweaters during World War II were reluctant to give them up in peacetime.

Waging war is not a primary physical need.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

A true war story is never moral.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

Pentagon records show that at least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. Army have deserted since the Iraq war began. Hey, at least somebody has an exit strategy.