Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"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

William Tecumseh Sherman

"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

William Tecumseh Sherman

"I intend to make Georgia howl!"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"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

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

"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

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

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

Horace, Poet

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

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

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

Virgil, Writer

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

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

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

Salvador Dali, Artist

Salvador Dali

"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"In war there is no substitute for victory"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"Our country is now geared to an arms economy, bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"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

Siegfried Sassoon

"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

Siegfried Sassoon

"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

Siegfried Sassoon

"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

Siegfried Sassoon

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

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

Siegfried Sassoon

"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

Dale Carnegie

"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

P. J. O'Rourke

"Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift"

Denzel Washington, Actor

Denzel Washington

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