No War Quotes

"Red Dawn" was a movie made in 1984 I think about World War III. If you have not seen it and plan on watching it, you want to close your eye and cover your ears but not really. You can figure it out.

Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

I think this sets a very bad precedent, the president unilaterally on his own starting war without any consent from Congress.

I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

We should understand the limitations of war. We should understand the sacrifices our young men and women go through losing lives and limbs. And they should only do it for the highest of purposes.

John McCain's complaint is we're either not at war somewhere, or if we're at war, we leave too soon. So we're not there soon enough, and he wants us to stay forever wherever we send troops.

John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

I think when we think about the judgment of someone who might want World War III, we might think about someone who might shut down a bridge because they don't like their friends.

If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.

You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

I'm not one of those Star Wars guys that has seen [my favorite movie] 97 times.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.

It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not scholars, they're not war experts.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

I felt the ruthfulness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer.

I think war should be illegal.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.

The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.

Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.