Quotes about War
Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.
- Michael Novak
The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war.
- Will Rogers
No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war.
- Theodore Roosevelt
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
- Thomas Jefferson
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
- Thomas Jefferson
One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.
- Thomas Jefferson
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
- William James
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
- Ernest Hemingway
In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
- Martin Luther