Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

Similar topics:Equality Freedom Human Rights Justice Peace

"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible, and now we have an isolated case, which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing"

John Perkins, Economist

"I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs, though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them!"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Bush had been President in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991"

Jon Lee Anderson, Journalist

"Feed the troops on victory"

John Monash, Soldier

"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular, in the field of human intelligence"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"I was kind of confused. I thought, Well, if I get drafted, I'll go. Everybody was very concerned with it. I had friends who went. Some that came back and some that didn't"

Tom Berenger, Actor

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet"

Titus Flavius Vespasian, Royalty

"As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior, the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"During war, the laws are silent"

Quintus Tullius Cicero, Soldier

"You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"Issue the orders, Sir, and I will storm Hell"

Anthony Wayne, Soldier

"Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen"

William Alexander Henry, Lawyer

"The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather or some similar substance. To secure them in some sort from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"With us air people, the future of our nation is indissolubly bound up in the development of air power"

Billy Mitchell, Soldier

"There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive"

Robin Cook, Politician

"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too"

Stjepan Mesic, Statesman

"It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms"

King Hassan II, Royalty

"Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget"

Robert Kagan, Writer

"Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?"

Francis Bond Head, Statesman

"Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear"

Menachem Begin, Statesman

"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri, and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness"

Jean-Paul Marat, Politician

"Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores"

Anthony Weiner, Politician

"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country"

John Sevier, Politician

"The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say, but hard to accomplish"

Cofer Black, Public Servant

Page 8 of 104