No War Quotes

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.

We and our allies owe and acknowledge an ever-lasting debt of gratitude to the armies and people of the Soviet Union.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

Few men are brave by nature, but good discipline and experience make many so.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.