No War Quotes

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations.

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God's Word.

War is the normal state of the people.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, 'Do or do not. There is no try.'

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my mind off things.

Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.