Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"By the end of the summer of 1973, I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"If there is no direct threat, why are we invading?"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence"

James Monroe, President

"The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation!"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge, to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned, I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends, all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum, in general, as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan, which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The Japanese campaign involves therefore two great uncertainties; first, whether Russia will come in, though we think that will be all right; and second, when and how S-1 will resolve itself"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of Central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Over any such tangled wave of problems, the S-1 secret would be dominant, and yet we will not know until after that time, probably, until after that meeting, whether this is a weapon in our hands or not"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon the Japanese, and there will be quite a little space before we intend to drop another"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945"

William Manchester, Historian

"Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help"

Kid Rock, Musician

"But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age"

Sam Donaldson, Journalist

"But if the UN cannot or will not revise its rules in ways that establish beyond question the legality of the measures the United States must take to protect the American people, then we should unashamedly and explicitly reject the jurisdiction of these rules"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness"

John Cusack, Actor

"I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I think it's man's nature to go to war and fight"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

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