Quotes about War
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
- Thomas Paine
I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
- Muhammad Ali
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
- James A. Garfield
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
- Cicero
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
- Rick Warren
We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.
- George W. Bush
If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
- Thomas Jefferson
We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.
- Will Rogers
Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.
- Albert Camus
The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.
- Edmund Burke
I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones
- Albert Einstein