No War Quotes

There is no telling how many wars it will take to secure freedom in the homeland.

Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

[Saddam] built up a massive war machine while neglecting the basic needs of his own people.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

There are some who feel like - that the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on! We've got the force necessary.

My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!

Sometimes I'm frustrated. Rarely surprised. Sometimes I'm happy, you know. But war is not a time of joy.

These aren't joyous times when we have war in Iraq. These are challenging times, and they're difficult times, and they're straining the psyche of our country. I understand that.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.

Mr. President, putting it bluntly, wouldn't we just be continuing a bloodbath that already exists in Cambodia if we voted the 222 million in aid?

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

I didn't want to say anything. I liked Star Wars when I was ten.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

Near a war is always not very near.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Two things are always the same the dance and war.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

Nobody really even knows with whom the US is at war, or where. Everyone just knows that it is vital that it continue in unlimited form indefinitely.

I live in a war zone. I would never have imagined 37 years ago when I started practicing law that there would still be so much discrimination against women, so much denial of women's rights.

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.