Quotes about war
war mass-destruction iraq
Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors; he will make war on his own people. And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them. William J. Clinton
war privilege cost
Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
war drug action
. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.
war technology hands
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.
war greatness want
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
war fighting power
The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
war firsts cold
The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
war hate mean
When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.
war years gentleman
Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things. William James
war volunteer morality
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
war believe discipline
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.
war may individual
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
war party writing
A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.
war feelings facts
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
war eye may
In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
war men glory
Modern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.
war party holiday
The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
war long might
So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.
war men thrill
Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
war news might
Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle. William Finnegan
war house peers
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. William Gilbert
war military technology
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. William Gibson
war mean years
Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars Will Durst
war house want
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.' Will Ferrell
war civilization democracy
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. Will Durant
war past years
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
war struggle rome
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
war hands faces
You're weird," Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand. "You're weird," Jamie returned. "As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends." "Drop dead," said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased. Sarah Rees Brennan
war iraq government
I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. Sarah Palin
war winning law
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
war enemy way
New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
war waiting ems
Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.
war fighting talking
Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.