Quotes about Conflict
You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
- John Milton
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
- Martin Luther
Laws are inoperative in war
- Cicero
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison
We still seek no wider war.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.
- Donald Trump
I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.
- Lily Tomlin
The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.
- GK Chesterton
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
- Cormac McCarthy