top of page
War Quotes


"President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up."


"I was the first candidate to come out against this war, spoke at every anti-war march."


"It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour."


"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us."
War,


"Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war."


"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."


"Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented."


"We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war."


"But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it."


"The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world."


"Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress."


"The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families."


"When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War."


"Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships."


"A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations."


"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."


"I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war."


"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."


"Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune."


"The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear."


"In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China."


"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."


"Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces."


"You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy."


"War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition."


"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."


"How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it."


"Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause."


"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."


"We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win."


"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."


"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."


"The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents."
War,
bottom of page


