Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"In war, there are no winners"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression"

Ramman Kenoun, Writer

"We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies"

Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary

"On behalf of the federal government, I wish now publicly to appeal to the provinces to lend their co-operation in furthering our country's war effort by effecting at as early a date as may be possible this much needed restriction"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry"

James Monroe, President

"War itself is the enemy of the human race"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"I told him there was one city that they must not bomb without my permission and that was Kyoto"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"I do not see how the Japanese can hold out against this united front"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"War is not civilized"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory"

Jefferson Davis, President

"Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit"

George III, Royalty

"We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"Valor is superior to number"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"In the decade before the Civil War, various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government"

John Moody, Businessman

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