No War Quotes

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

You want one civil war, brah?

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

If somebody here in America is against war crime and against stealing lands from Palestinians by Jews, he's already not allowed into Israel.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Government-mandated and -subsidized ethanol from corn will go down in history as the "Iraq War" of environmental solutions: ill-considered, costly, and disastrous.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

The hideous god of war.

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.