No War Quotes

No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

The more laws, the less justice.

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

The war has ruined us for everything.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

I voted to send people to war.

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

Silence gives consent.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

Did you know that the percentage of young people in the crucial 'youthquake' age bracket of 15 to 24 was higher in 1973 than in 1967 ? Therefore it was glam rock that ended the war in Vietnam.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off?" - Quellcrist Falconer

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.

I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.