300 Quotes on War

• Persistence is the key to success in both love and war.

  Author: Amelia Earhart

• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

  Author: Stefan Zweig

• For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

  Author: Anthony Zinni

• When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• War itself is the enemy of the human race.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Author: Fareed Zakaria

• I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

  Author: Neil Young

• I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

  Author: Don Young

• We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

  Author: John Yoo

• It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

  Author: John Yoo

• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

  Author: John Yoo

• Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

  Author: John Yoo

• We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

  Author: John Yoo

• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  Author: John Yoo

• The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

  Author: John Yoo

• If a war started, the oil price probably would go up, as you said, maybe $5, $6 a barrel until you saw other oil from the extra supplies that are available elsewhere coming into the world, into the market.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

  Author: Peter Yarrow

• But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

  Author: Herman Wouk

• If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

  Author: Judy Woodruff

• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

• I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.

  Author: Alicia Witt

• One thing's for sure, in the war between freedom and fear, our side is going to have better t-shirts.

  Author: Dave Winer

• The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.

  Author: Arthur Wimperis

• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• In the issue war in Iraq, it was very clear to me that the policies that were being espoused by neoconservatives were totally devoid of substance - but they marketed it wonderfully.

  Author: Joseph Wilson

• The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

  Author: Joe Wilson

• A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Man's fate in battle is worked out before the war begins.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

  Author: Ann Wilson

• Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Author: Gary Wills

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

  Author: Robbie Williams

• For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• World War II was the last government program that really worked.

  Author: George Will

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

  Author: Frank Whittle

• The real war will never get in the books.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

  Author: John Whitehead

• There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

  Author: Theodore White

• The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

  Author: E. White

• I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.

  Author: Barry White

• These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed.

  Author: Christiaan Wet

• We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• War is fear cloaked in courage.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• There was no real fringe theatre in London until way after the war, so either a play was done secretly with a club licence or it was done openly and had to be assessed along with everything else.

  Author: Timothy West

• The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

  Author: Timothy West

• Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

  Author: Rebecca West

• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  Author: H. Wells

• If we don't end war, war will end us.

  Author: H. Wells

• Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

  Author: H. Wells

• The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

  Author: Gideon Welles

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

  Author: Simone Weil

• A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

  Author: Simone Weil

• All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

  Author: Noah Webster

• If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

  Author: Dennis Weaver

• Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

  Author: Stand Watie

• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

  Author: Maxine Waters

• If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

  Author: George Washington

• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  Author: George Washington

• My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

  Author: George Washington

• The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

  Author: George Washington

• War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

  Author: George Washington

• By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

  Author: John Warner

• We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

  Author: Rob Walton

• Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

  Author: Rob Walton

• If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war.

  Author: Jim Walton

• During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

  Author: Jim Walton

• Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.

  Author: Jim Walton

• Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

  Author: Jim Walton

• Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

  Author: Stephen Walt

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  Author: James Walsh

• It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

  Author: Robert Walpole

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

  Author: Jim Wallis

• Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

  Author: Mort Walker

• The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

  Author: Mort Walker

• When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

  Author: Mort Walker

• My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

  Author: Lech Walesa

• The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.

  Author: Greg Walden

• The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

  Author: George Wald

• There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

  Author: George Wald

• We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

  Author: George Wald

• Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

  Author: George Wald

• All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

  Author: George Wald

• So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

  Author: Diane Wakoski

• Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

  Author: Edward Wadsworth

• Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.

  Author: Sarah Vowell

• All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• To hold a pen is to be at war.

  Author: Voltaire

• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Author: Jon Voight

• It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

  Author: Paul Virilio

• War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

  Author: Paul Virilio

• The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

  Author: John Vinocur

• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  Author: Dominique Villepin

• General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

  Author: Henry Villard

• Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

  Author: John Vessey, Jr.

• Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

  Author: Marquis Vauvenargues

• My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

  Author: Marguerite Valois

• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

  Author: Eamon Valera

• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

  Author: Walter Ulbricht

• All war is based on deception.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• All war is deception.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Sports is like a war without the killing.

  Author: Ted Turner

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  Author: Ted Turner

• While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

  Author: Jonathan Turley

• Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

  Author: Mao Tung

• Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Author: Mao Tung

• The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

  Author: Franjo Tudjman

• War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• Our only weapons in this war of your lifetime are the weapons of the mind.

  Author: Paul Tsongas

• Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

  Author: Donald Trump

• We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

  Author: Harry Truman

• Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

  Author: Garry Trudeau

• There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

  Author: Leo Tolstoy

• Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war.

  Author: Victoria Toensing

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

  Author: James Tobin

• I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

  Author: Gene Tierney

• Well, today, we are in the struggle brought on to us by the terrorists of Islam. It is a war that we did not choose. It was a war that was declared against us as Americans, against our people, against our Constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

  Author: Howard Thurman

• Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

  Author: Thucydides

• Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.

  Author: James Thomson

• There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

  Author: Bobby Thomson

• You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service.

  Author: Mike Thompson

• We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

  Author: Norman Thomas

• You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

  Author: Isaiah Thomas

• But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

  Author: Evan Thomas

• The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  Author: U. Thant

• Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

  Author: Irving Thalberg

• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  Author: A. Taylor

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  Author: A. Taylor

• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  Author: A. Taylor

• No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

  Author: A. Taylor

• Preemption is the right of any nation in order to preserve its National Security; however, preemptive war is a tactic, not a strategy. When used as a strategy preemption dilutes diplomacy, creates an atmosphere of distrust, and promotes regional instability.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

  Author: Ida Tarbell

• Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

  Author: John Tanner

• War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and there wasn't enough critical reporting about it and that's why it's gotten out of hand.

  Author: David Talbot

• I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

  Author: Al Talal

• Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.

  Author: George Takei

• Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

  Author: Robert Taft

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  Author: Tacitus

• Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• After every war someone has to tidy up.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

  Author: Stuart Symington

• That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

  Author: Patricia Sun

• Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  Author: Peter Stuyvesant

• I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

  Author: Leonard Strong

• In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

  Author: Anna Strong

• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America.

  Author: Robert Stone

• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Author: Oliver Stone

• And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

  Author: James Stockdale

• As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

  Author: Jerry Stiller

• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Author: Andrew Still

• War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

  Author: George Stigler

• Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

  Author: George Stigler

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• Making peace is harder than making war.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

  Author: George Steiner

• Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

  Author: Cliff Stearns

• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  Author: Ralph Steadman

• If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

  Author: Claus Stauffenberg

• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Author: Ringo Starr

• I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.

  Author: Pete Stark

• This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

  Author: John Spratt

• What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

  Author: John Spratt

• Tell me, was it you or your brother who was killed in the war?

  Author: W. Spooner

• I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

  Author: Oswald Spengler

• American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

  Author: Arlen Specter

• Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

  Author: George Soros

• Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

  Author: Sophocles

• A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

  Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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