Quotes about war
war men views
My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. Ray McGovern
war
In any war who pulls their general out? No one. Ray Lewis
war home fighting
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.
war winning preventing
Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war. Raul Castro
war future son
Armies gather in the East for the war that's soon to come. Death will march with the mark of the beast, so seek the light and walk with the Son. Randy Travis
war perfect long
Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day. Randy Alcorn
war compassion creating
The third world war is not going to happen! I predict it! It is not going to happen, because of you, because of my people around the earth! They are the only hope. Only millions of buddhas are capable of creating the atmosphere for peace, for love, for compassion, for celebration. Rajneesh
war
...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them Thomas Jefferson
war wish enough
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
war rights government
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
war great-men preference
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.
war hands law
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and this] would apply in an occasion of peace as well as war.
war issues bravery
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
war thinking blood
Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.
war choices enemy
A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.
war evil long
The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
war long suffering
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.
war thinking enemy
But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
war interesting long
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
war enemy forget
We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
war blood lamps
The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.
war arithmetic interest
Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.
war rights long
I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
war army navy
I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them.
war thinking rights
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to affect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.
war benefits horror
It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
war disposition made
It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.
war insult produce
One insult pocketed soon produces another.
war britain late
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.
war world noise
The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?' Robin Williams
war fighting winning
As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror. Robin Hayes
war may parliament
I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war. Robin Cook
war iraq perfect
There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.