No War Quotes

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Never go to war unless your willing to win.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

I really think that the Liberal Party is dead and that one will simply have to think of men and policies after the war - not of parties.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

I've got plenty of train memories. I was sent to school when I was eight years old in 1948 in Kent. So I had to go through London in 1948, just after the war. Many ,many strange experiences.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

We are Americans first, Americans last, Americans always... Let us argue our differences. But remember we are not enemies, but comrades in a war against a real enemy...

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

Reducing military presence has never in history won a war.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

The most cost-effective move we could make in defense spending would be to shift the focus of CIA operations, giving this agency the directive to make trouble for the Soviet Union.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

None of us wants any more war.

[At Conventions] they give me all the photos to sign. Star Wars, Superman. And Hammy the Pig is right up there.

My uniform [in Star Wars] was cool. Not much else I can think of at the moment. You know, you don't know the enormity of these kinds of films until well after you're done.

I don't know that I ever did see Star Wars as any different. I was certainly proud that I did it.