No War Quotes

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

I was trying to disturb the war.

I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

We should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

We're facing a very different sort of threat now, a more amorphous threat, al Qaeda, terrorism, and so on. And so the military has abandoned the two-war strategy.

The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, its a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

The U.S. had about 10,000 nuclear warheads. It is estimated that the U.S. is heading towards having 6,000 nuclear warheads in the year 2012.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

War is a trade of kings.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

I'm a Catholic, raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. Religion has been a huge part of my life. It helped lead me through a war, leads me today.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without overwhelming force.

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.