Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"When someone grows up in war, they learn to live in chaos. When someone grows up in peace, they learn to live in order. People who grow up in chaos think order is restrictive. People who grow up in order think chaos is dangerous"

Trevor Noah, Comedian

"We are at war"

Emmanuel Macron, President

"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people, would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm"

Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician

"We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror"

Andrew Card, Politician

"There are legitimate, even powerful arguments to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"There was nothing there but black water and American fire power"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"A few regular troops from Old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence"

James Wolfe, Soldier

"There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"The present danger which this country faces is at least as great as the danger which we faced during the war with Germany and Japan. Briefly stated, it is the very real danger that this country, as we know it, may cease to exist"

James Forrestal, Public Servant

"If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on"

Robert M. La Follette, Politician

"That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"Victory is the only option, and we will be victorious in Iraq"

Andrew Card, Politician

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out"

Alan Moore, Writer

"American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle"

John Hersey, Writer

"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time"

George Grosz, Artist

"We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"Never stand and take a charge... charge them too"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq"

Kit Bond, Politician

"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"All government wars are unjust"

Murray Rothbard, Economist

"And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words, and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays"

John Hersey, Writer

"I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

"It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea, and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate, you have real problems"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them"

Carl Levin, Politician

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