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War Quotes
"From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources."
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"Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils."
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"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went."
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"So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it."
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"After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more."
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"He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it."
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"The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war."
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"We must continue to work hard on the federal level, to make sure that our local law enforcement and communities have the tools and resources they need to fight this war against methamphetamine, and keep our kids safe."
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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."
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"Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war."
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"To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous."
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"It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein."
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"War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal."
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"I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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"From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible."
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"After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed."
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"So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote."
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"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
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"One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly."
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"But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me."
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"Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany."
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"It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally."
War,
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"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty."
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"Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral."
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"There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign."
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"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."
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"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
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"The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea."
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