Quotes about war
war long black
For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight. Allen West
war struggle unions
We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.
war mouths hell
As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.
war evil enemy
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled. Aeschines
war trouble
Don't go looking for trouble. Aesop
war guarantees wells
To be well prepared for war is the best guarantee of peace.
war flower host
Ares ever loves to pluck all the fairest flower of an armed host. Aeschylus
war political firsts
In war the first casualty is the truth.
war past light
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth. Abraham Lincoln
war holiday wish
I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.
war eye civil-war
As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
war party acceptance
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
war government issues
So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.
war believe struggle
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
war office favors
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
war race white
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
war believe hard-work
I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.
war men law
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable. Alexander Hamilton
war lying flames
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism Alex Salmond
war believe winning
In the wake of winning the war, Poland wants to help win peace with Iraq. I believe that the international community cannot leave Iraq without support. Aleksander Kwasniewski
war literature never-quit
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there. Aleksandar Hemon
war america choices
When I came to America, I was already a writer, already published in Bosnia. I was planning to go back, but I had no choice but to stay here after the civil war, so I enrolled at Northwestern in a master's program and studied American literature.
war mean swings
When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.
war mutual-attraction two
There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
war growth important
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
war self want
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
war evil political
To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
war self cold
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
war cold communism
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
war tyrants rocks
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
war world unions
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
war goal world
The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.
war fool body
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.