Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported, released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause"

Homer, Poet

"Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer"

George William Curtis, Author

"To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history!"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed"

Robert Byrd, Politician

"Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places, and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"It simply is not true that war never settles anything"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of Western democracies to the rest of the world"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the World War both have their start in the heated brain"

Elizabeth Bowen, Novelist

"I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"War is fear cloaked in courage"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"During the last war, when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination"

James Monroe, President

"This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from and building on previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives just to create chaos for news cameras"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men, each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature, are shot down wholesale"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"We had the best food any battlefield ever had"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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