No War Quotes

Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

War is not women's history.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

We view our atomic arsenal as proudly and as devotedly as any pioneer ever viewed his flintlock hanging over the mantel as his children slept, and dreamed.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.

Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops, and the big wars That make ambition virtue.

To whom God will, there be the victory.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a squalid defeat.