Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace"

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

Sun Tzu

"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

William Tecumseh Sherman

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"No one thinks of how much blood it costs"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

Dante Alighieri

"The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

Otto von Bismarck

"No war is inevitable until it breaks out"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic"

A. J. P. Taylor, Historian

A. J. P. Taylor

"You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

Ho Chi Minh

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"To secure peace is to prepare for war"

Karl Von Clausewitz, Soldier

"A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"The engine of the tank is a weapon, just as the main-gun"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"If the tanks succeed, then victory follows"

Heinz Guderian, Soldier

"The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"The future belongs to the strong; the weak will be swept away by the tide of history"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

Wilhelm II

"History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

Gustav Stresemann

"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

Ann Coulter

"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis"

Nick Clooney, Politician

Nick Clooney

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right"

Frederick II, Royalty

"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots"

Muammar al-Gaddafi, Leader

"Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake"

Ayatollah Khomeini, Statesman

Ayatollah Khomeini

"No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

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