Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is, and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"Mankind invents things to fight about"

Mike Love, Musician

"After every war, someone has to tidy up"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former Cold War allies"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"War has been good to me from a financial standpoint, but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?"

Rahm Emanuel, Politician

"The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"World War II... Did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us"

Graham Chapman, Comedian

"The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind!"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious"

Oliver Stone, Director

"The Palestinian Rifle is ready, and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers"

Roald Dahl, Novelist

"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother"

Charles Farrar Browne, Writer

"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel"

Yasser Arafat, Leader

"We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either"

David Letterman, Comedian

"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

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