Quotes about war
war race people
It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement. Woodrow Wilson
war men hands
...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
war great-war ends
This is a war to end all wars.
war fighting brutality
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life...
war events hostage
In the event of war, I'm a hostage. Woody Allen
war winning succeed
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. William Westmoreland
war believe men
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
war suffering without-hope
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. William Wordsworth
war army snow
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
war mind world
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
war fool toil
Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few. William Shenstone
war writing world
I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons. William Saroyan
war coffee believe
I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?
war air water
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity. William Shatner
war design making-peace
We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go. William McKinley
war agency presidential
War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.
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.