Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat"

Mike Pence, Politician

"And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"The reality is, the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill"

Mike Pence, Politician

"As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there"

Howard Dean, Politician

"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling"

Allen West, Politician

"There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty!"

Andrew Cuomo, Politician

"God made them as stubble to our swords"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"I am against all war"

Sophia Loren, Actress

"Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you"

Johnny Rotten, Musician

"Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land"

Jack Schwartz, Scientist

"The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion"

Harvey Milk, Politician

"What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold"

John Buford, Soldier

"There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason"

John Buford, Soldier

"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became"

Douglas Bader, Soldier

"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana, and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however, everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?"

Andrew Greeley, Clergyman

"Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched"

Guy de Maupassant, Writer

"Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

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