Quotes about War
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
— Margaret Atwood
This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.
— George W. Bush
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
— St. Augustine
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
— Barack Obama
The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.
— Shimon Peres
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
— Victor Hugo
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
— Joseph Heller
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
— Alexander Hamilton
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
— Ernest Hemingway
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
— GK Chesterton