Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"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

"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

"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

"The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income"

Alma Guillermoprieto, Journalist

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia, no fellow can understand"

John Burns, Activist

"Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in"

George McGovern, Politician

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

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"Hitler bombed London into submission, but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very, very sad situation"

Gerald Scarfe, Artist

Gerald Scarfe

"Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present"

Edward Wadsworth, Artist

"The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells"

Dorie Miller, Celebrity

Dorie Miller

"The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty"

John Warner, Politician

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide!"

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

Henri Barbusse

"Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you"

Edward Teach, Celebrity

"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means"

Zhou Enlai, Statesman

"We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"War is mainly a catalogue of blunders"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"They never fail who die in a great cause"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

Duke of Wellington

"No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

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

Thomas Mann, Writer

Thomas Mann

"We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

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