No War Quotes

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

The root of war is fear.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III

In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

Hold the fort! I am coming!

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

How is it possible to have a civil war?

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.