Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq"

Barbara Mikulski, Politician

"We should have been there, shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is Al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence"

John Bruton, Politician

"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all"

John Bruton, Politician

"Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea"

John Bruton, Politician

"Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"These people are very unskilled in arms... With 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought!"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not, and we will not let him succeed"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire"

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Leader

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

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig"

Claud Cockburn, Journalist

"It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The increased consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada since the outbreak of war is one evidence of this"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

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