Quotes about War

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

But not by habits of war nor by open magnanimity, but he shall grow great by fraudulent and clandestine arts; because he was on the one hand most impious, and on the other, of a servile disposition, as we have formerly said.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.