Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them"

George W. Bush, President

"This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war"

George W. Bush, President

"The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative"

George W. Bush, President

"The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got"

George W. Bush, President

"Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror"

George W. Bush, President

"Iraq is no diversion. It is a place where civilization is taking a decisive stand against chaos and terror, We must not waver"

George W. Bush, President

"I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes"

George W. Bush, President

"I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you, and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon"

George W. Bush, President

"Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"The principal cause of war is war itself"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other"

James Madison, President

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations"

James Madison, President

"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason"

James Madison, President

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits"

James Madison, President

"There can be no compromises on issues of sovereignty and territorial integrity"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame"

Edward Young, Poet

"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got Bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see, and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security, he was very often in the minority"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"Direct threats require decisive action"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"And the fact of the matter is, there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan. We know they are seeking deadlier weapons - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, if they can get it"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues"

Dick Cheney, Vice President

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire'"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

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