Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I intend to make Georgia howl!"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat"

Barack Obama, President

"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement"

Barack Obama, President

"I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners"

Barack Obama, President

"There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America"

Barack Obama, President

"Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military"

Barack Obama, President

"But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution?, The answer is no"

Barack Obama, President

"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future"

Barack Obama, President

"Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK"

Barack Obama, President

"We're not going to baby sit a civil war"

Barack Obama, President

"We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated"

Barack Obama, President

"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent"

Frank Herbert, Writer

"In strife, who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?"

Virgil, Writer

"I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"The real war will never get in the books"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country"

Horace, Poet

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will"

George Washington, President

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war"

George Washington, President

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession"

George Washington, President

"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Wars have never hurt anybody, except the people who die"

Salvador Dali, Artist

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