No War Quotes

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

My voice is still for war.

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army

War is science of destruction.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

My sentence is for open war.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.

Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

It's an important fact of life, war.

It is always more valuable to report the truth.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners of the world.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

The greatest statesmen, philosophers, humanitarians ... have not been able to put an end to war. Why place that demand on photography?

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

War may break out unexpectedly. Wars are not declared, nowadays. They simply start.

There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!

Either we abandon the utopian globalism of open borders and 'ally-ally-in-free' immigration or we lose the war on terrorism and our freedoms with it.

We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.