Quotes about War
Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.
- St. Augustine
No matter how tough Iraq became, removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do for the sake of peace and for the 25 million people we liberated.
- George W. Bush
... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.
- Hillary Clinton
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
And now, as in no other age, we seek it [peace] because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
- William James
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
- David Livingstone Smith
Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.
- David Livingstone Smith
Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.
- Bill Johnson
God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.
- George W. Bush
In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
- Abraham Lincoln