No War Quotes

When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam.

War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

In any war, people will pay the price.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

I prefer law to war under all circumstances.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

It is your attitude, and the suspicion that you are maturing the boldest designs against him, that imposes on your enemy.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.