Quotes about war
war men helping
A war undertaken and brazenly carried for the perpetual enslavement of the colored men, calls logically and loudly for the colored men to help suppress it. Frederick Douglass
war fall history
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.
war civilization territory
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
war slavery may
This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.
war slavery republic
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
war mean men
Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.
war home people
And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us. Frederick Buechner
war believe thinking
I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians. Frank Sinatra
war guy world
I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life - not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live.
war architecture environment
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. Frank Gehry
war cities want
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
war thoughtful iraq
War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end. George F. Kennan
war tools foreign-policy
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.
war passion together
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite. George Eliot
war military tactics
In tactics, action is the governing rule of war. Ferdinand Foch
war ideas political
A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out. This amounts to saying:;: try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.
war never-settle settling
It simply is not true that war never settles anything. Felix Frankfurter
war struggle mean
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim. Feisal Abdul Rauf
war political pressure
Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms. Fatou Bensouda
war cutting fighting
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo. Fatos Nano
war cancer challenges
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit... Farrah Fawcett
war spring roots
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war. Fanny Kemble
war eye reflection
while all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears ... Fanny Burney
war struggle men
I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals. Fannie Hurst
war believe two
In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword. Fannie Flagg
war sticks enough
Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked Faith Hunter
warrior way calm
You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.
war epidemics insecurity
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt. F. L. Lucas
war heaven instance
War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. Ezra Stiles
war thinking korea
The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. F. Murray Abraham
war debt made
Wars are made to make debt. Ezra Pound
war debt slavery
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
war book christ
From the Book of Mormon we learn how disciples of Christ live in times of war. Ezra Taft Benson