Quotes on War

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Author: Abu Abbas

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Author: Gerry Adams

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

Author: Jack Adams

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Author: John Adams

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

Author: Will Adams

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Author: Kate Adie

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

Author: Kate Adie

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Author: Kate Adie

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Author: Alfred Adler

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

Author: Alfred Adler

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

Author: Alfred Adler

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.

Author: Daniel Akaka

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

Author: Moustapha Akkad

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

Author: Bashar al-Assad

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

Author: Madeleine Albright

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

Author: Lamar Alexander

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

Author: Iyad Allawi

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

Author: Steve Allen

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

Author: Christiane Amanpour

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

Author: Barbara Amiel

Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary.

Author: Giulio Andreotti

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants.

Author: Yuri Andropov

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Author: Susan Anthony

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

Author: R. Apple, Jr.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Author: Hannah Arendt

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

Author: Alexis Arguello

The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

Author: Peter Arnett

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

Author: Peter Arnett

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

Author: Kenneth Arrow

It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

Author: William Ashley

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

Author: William Ashley

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Author: Isaac Asimov

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Author: Isaac Asimov

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Author: Isaac Asimov

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Author: Brooks Atkinson

War is what happens when language fails.

Author: Margaret Atwood

I waged war against my feelings.

Author: John Audubon

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Author: Red Auerbach

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Author: Joe Baca

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Author: Joe Baca

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

Author: Spencer Bachus

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

Author: Michael Badnarik

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Author: Emily Balch

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.

Author: Emily Balch

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

Author: Roger Baldwin

War would end if the dead could return.

Author: Stanley Baldwin

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

Author: Jan Balkenende

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Author: Ashleigh Banfield

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

Author: Ashleigh Banfield

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Author: Russell Banks

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

Author: Henry Bannerman

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

Author: Gresham Barrett

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Author: Dave Barry

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Author: Bernard Baruch

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

Author: Charles Bass

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Author: Gregory Bateson

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

Author: Gary Bauer

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

Author: Evan Bayh

All oppression creates a state of war.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

Author: Xavier Becerra

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

Author: Xavier Becerra

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war.

Author: Ulrich Beck

So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

Author: Paul Begala

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Author: Ahmed Bella

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.

Author: Carol Bellamy

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Author: Saul Bellow

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Author: Ruth Benedict

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Author: Tony Benn

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Author: Robert Bennett

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Author: Paul Berg

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Author: Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.

Author: Alexander Berkman

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Author: Silvio Berlusconi

Sending our youth to war is wrong.

Author: Michael Berryman

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Author: Ernest Bevin

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Author: Kathryn Bigelow

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

Author: Judy Biggert

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Author: Cofer Black

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Author: Marsha Blackburn

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Author: Tony Blair

The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.

Author: Hans Blix

The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

Author: Hans Blix

On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.

Author: Hans Blix

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

Author: Hans Blix

Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

Author: Hans Blix

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.

Author: Anthony Blunt

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

Author: John Boehner

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.

Author: John Boehner

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

Author: Manute Bol

Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.

Author: Christopher Bond

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Author: Julian Bond

Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.

Author: Kit Bond

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

Author: Kit Bond

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

Author: Neal Boortz

We learned the value of research in World War II.

Author: Amar Bose

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Author: Alain Botton

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

Author: Robert Bourassa

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

Author: Barbara Boxer

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.

Author: Allen Boyd

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

Author: Allen Boyd

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Author: Paul Boyer

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Author: Omar Bradley

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Author: Omar Bradley

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Author: Omar Bradley

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

Author: Billy Bragg

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

Author: Georg Brandes

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Author: Hjalmar Branting

The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.

Author: Carol Braun

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Author: Bertolt Brecht

If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.

Author: Phil Bredesen

We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.

Author: Paul Bremer

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

Author: Rory Bremner

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

Author: Rory Bremner

Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Author: Joe Briggs

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

Author: John Bright

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Author: Peter Brimelow

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

Author: Adrien Brody

We've been in a war and a recession. That's why acccent colors with yellow and purple are popular. They're optimistic and flirty and happy colors.

Author: David Bromstad

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Author: Van Brooks

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Author: Earl Browder

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

Author: Earl Browder

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

Author: Corrine Brown

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Author: Charles Browne

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Author: Harry Browne

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Author: Dave Brubeck