No War Quotes

The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life.

... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.

I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren't.

I was against the war in Iraq.

I was against the war in Iraq.The record shows that I'm right. When I did an interview with Howard Stern.

They did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in '04. But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war without knowing what she was doing, I would not have had our people in Iraq. Iraq was disaster.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

One hundred years after the entry of American forces into World War I, the transatlantic bond between the United States and Europe is as strong as ever and maybe, in many ways, even stronger.

In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq, because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

Our Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest it's been.

We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength.

[Hillary Clinton] is the one who raised her hand for the war in Iraq and I'm the one who has been fighting it.

I was totally against the war in Iraq, you can check Reuters, July of oh-four, I was against it, I said you are going to destabilize.

My wife once said that if men had to worry about who was going to clean up the mess, there'd be a lot less violence in the world.

When there's a war, people get married.

My father was in the First World War.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

Patriotism for the sake of is like choosing sides in a war based on the color of their uniforms.

The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

War is a contest, and you finally get to a point where you are talking merely about race suicide, and nothing else.

No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and ant-like files of advancing troops ashore.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is carried out.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.

The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world.

We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.