951 private quotes tagged war

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.” — Salvador Dali

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“Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” — Herbert Hoover

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“War is a defeat for humanity.” — Pope John Paul II

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“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“War is a profane thing.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” — Francois Fenelon

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“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” — Robert E. Lee

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“One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.” — Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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“All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.” — Noah Webster

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“Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.” — Benjamin Carson

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“The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.” — Robert E. Lee

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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.” — Virginia Woolf

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“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.” — Golda Meir

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“I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.” — Chief Joseph

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“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.” — Thucydides

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“The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.” — George McGovern

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“The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.” — William Westmoreland

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