No War Quotes

America is at war. Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist.

ISIS and Iran have declared war on America, and we need a commander in chief who will do everything necessary to keep our children safe.

Wage war on death. Live for love.

I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.

No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.

Councils of War never fight.

After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

The power of making war often prevents it.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.