Quotes about War
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
- Ellen Glasgow
I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.
- George H. W. Bush
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
- Martin Luther
But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.
- Mother Teresa
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
- Pablo Picasso
The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
- Julian Casablancas
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.
- John Piper
The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
- Harry S. Truman
God is always at war with sin.
- G Campbell Morgan
The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
- Ulysses S. Grant