c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
War is the trade of Kings.
— John Dryden
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
— Elizabeth I
Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
— Kevin O'Leary
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
— Arlen Specter
I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
— Harry Browne
Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.
— John O. Brennan
The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
— John Podhoretz
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
— Daniel H. Wilson
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
— Karl Marlantes
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
— Jon Krakauer
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
— Lynn Nottage
In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
— Tariq Ramadan
I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
— Peter Abelard
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
— Anthony Lewis
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
— Zaha Hadid
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
— Smedley Butler
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!
— Graydon Carter
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.
— Steven Pinker
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
— Benazir Bhutto
We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.
— Jeremy Gilley
One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.
— Chris Jordan
Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace.
— Cesare Beccaria
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
— Julian Assange
The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.
— Craig Venter
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
— John Foster Dulles
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
— Winston Churchill
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
— Thom Gunn
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
— Marjane Satrapi
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
— Theodore Roosevelt
My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
— Manfred von Richthofen
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
— Ronald Reagan
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
— John Steinbeck
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
— Omar N. Bradley
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
— Daniel Morgan
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
— Alfred Adler
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
— Ben Shapiro
The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
If we don't end war, war will end us.
— H. G. Wells
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.
— Lewis Thomas
Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.
— Vladimir Putin
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.
— Michael Korda
In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.
— Dexter Gordon
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
— Robert Kennedy
Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.
— Greg Grandin
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.
— Russell Baker
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
— Larry Elder
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
— Thomas Hobbes
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
— John Wooden
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.
— Thor Heyerdahl
Capitalism is war socialism is peace. 
— Karl Liebknecht
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
— Carl von Clausewitz
What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?
— Deborah Sampson
We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
— Doc Hastings
Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.
— Tim O'Brien
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
— Douglas Haig
I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
— Frank B. Kellogg
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
— Gore Vidal
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
— George Wald
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
— Charles Inglis
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
— Pat Buchanan
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
— Noam Chomsky
The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.
— Kim Jong-un
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
— George McGovern
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
— J. G. Ballard
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
— A. J. P. Taylor
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
— Noah Feldman
I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.
— Matthew Rhys
I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
— Anthony Hopkins
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
— Neal Boortz
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
— Ernest Hemingway
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
— Paul Valery
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
— Maxine Waters
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
— Leo Tolstoy
Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.
— Leila Janah
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
— James Monroe
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
— Barry Goldwater
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
— J. F. C. Fuller
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
— Loren Eiseley
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
— Lee Myung-bak
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.
— William O'Neill
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.
— Ban Ki-moon
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
— Indira Gandhi
It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
— John Mahoney
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
— Mo Rocca
You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
— George Armstrong Custer
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
— Ernie Pyle
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. 
— George Orwell
We are muddled into war.
— David Lloyd George
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
— Fareed Zakaria
I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
— Craig Venter
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
— Winston Churchill
But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
— Jim Bunning
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
— Ernest Hemingway
If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.
— Donald Rumsfeld
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
— Robert M. La Follette
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
— Jonathan Sacks
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
— Ernest Hemingway
Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
— Otto Hahn
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
— P. D. James
I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.
— Silvio Berlusconi
I saw Kuwait many times before the war. I remember it as a beautiful place, full of very nice people, and it's a tragedy to see that somebody could set out to deliberately destroy a country the way the Iraqis have.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.
— Elliott Abrams
If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
— David Ignatius
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
— Abba Eban
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
— Leo Tolstoy
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
— Mao Zedong
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
— Pam Gems
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
— Stanley Crouch
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.
— Ken Burns
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
— Yoko Ono
I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
— Wangari Maathai
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
— Paul Wolfowitz
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
— Mark Boal
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
— Geraldine Brooks
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.
— Richard Phillips
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
— Mark McKinnon
In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
— Edward Snowden
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
— Jeffrey Sachs
Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
— Sam Harris
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
— Ian K. Smith
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
— Vanna Bonta
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
— Aldous Huxley
War is hell.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
— George Herbert
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
— Isaac Asimov
The great object is that every man be armed.
— Patrick Henry
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
— Sophocles
Sweat saves blood.
— Erwin Rommel
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
— Lester B. Pearson
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. 
— E. W. Howe
The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
— George W. Bush
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
— Abraham Lincoln
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
— Smedley Butler
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
— Michael Badnarik
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
— George B. McClellan
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
— Charles B. Rangel
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
— Helmut Kohl
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
— Fredric Jameson
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
— Ezra Pound
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
— Bobby Riggs
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
— Ruth Benedict
The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
— Ralph Peters
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
— Clint Eastwood
South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.
— Kim Young-ha
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
— Robert Gottlieb
I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
— Uzo Aduba
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
— Menachem Begin
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
— Nigel Hamilton
Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.
— Robert J. Sawyer
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
— Ernest Hemingway
During war, the laws are silent.
— Quintus Tullius Cicero
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
— Ronald Reagan
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
— Arthur Koestler
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
— George Orwell
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
— John McCain
War settles nothing.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
— King George V
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
— Ted Nugent
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
— Georg Solti
The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.
— Eric Shinseki
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
— Chief Joseph
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
— Arrian
Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
— Samuel E. Morison
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
— Paul Robeson
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.
— Steve Buyer
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
— Maya Lin
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
— William Westmoreland
I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
— Siegfried Sassoon
Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
— Marsha Blackburn
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
— Barack Obama
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
— Bill Moyers
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.
— Peter Yarrow
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
— Carl von Clausewitz
Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
— Imelda Staunton
There aren't a lot of guys like me left. But I'm a war horse. I've been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going.
— Joel Silver
America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.
— Lincoln Chafee
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
— Alan Dershowitz
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
— Bayard Rustin
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
— David M. Shoup
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.
— William Westmoreland
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
— Herman Kahn
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
— Lester B. Pearson
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
— Jessica Savitch
I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
— Hans Blix
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
— James A. Garfield
I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
— Rand Paul
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
— Barry Commoner
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.
— Ehud Barak
War, I thought, was the most negative aspect of male heterosexuality. If more men were homosexual, there would be no wars, because homosexual men would never kill other men, whereas heterosexual men love killing other men.
— Morrissey
I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
— Yves Behar
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
— Blaise Pascal
Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
— Fred Woodworth
War is fear cloaked in courage.
— William Westmoreland
Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
— Jean Giraudoux
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
— Salvatore Quasimodo
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
— Winston Churchill
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
— Maya Lin
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
— Black Kettle
War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.
— Gilbert Parker
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.
— Peter L. Bergen
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
— Red Auerbach
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
— John F. Kennedy
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
— H. L. Mencken
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
— Albert Pike
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
— St. Jerome
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
— Winston Churchill
War is like love it always finds a way. 
— Bertolt Brecht
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
— Martin Scorsese
Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
— Harry S Truman
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
— Thomas Paine
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.
— Conan O'Brien
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
— Woody Harrelson
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
— Leon Trotsky
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
— Alfred Adler
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
— E. B. White
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
— George W. Bush
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
— Howard Zinn
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
— John F. Kennedy
What is more immoral than war?
— Marquis de Sade
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.
— Robert Mueller
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.
— Tom Cruise
I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.
— Daniel Akaka
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
— Silvia Cartwright
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
— Bob Hawke
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
— Anthony Zinni
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
— Cardinal Richelieu
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
— David K. E. Bruce
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
— George Orwell
War is at its best barbarism.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
— Dennis Chavez
This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire.
— Joe Scarborough
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
— Christiane Amanpour
I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.
— Thomas Gold
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
— Hanoi Hannah
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.
— Herman Kahn
I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
— Jack Scalia
We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.
— Joshua Chamberlain
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.
— Roger Mahony
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
— Nelson A. Miles
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
— Henry A. Wallace
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
— Frank B. Kellogg
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
— Thomas E. Mann
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
— Barry Commoner
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
— Marvin Olasky
The news in Europe, West and East, is still showing America in flames, flood, etc. Cities are shown underwater; befuddled American officials are shown trying to explain why we are winning the war on terrorism.
— Richard Reeves
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
— Katherine Dunn
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.
— George William Norris
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
— Gordon Sinclair
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.
— Henry L. Stimson
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.
— Joe Baca
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.
— Joe Baca
After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
— C. L. R. James
American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them.
— Dana Rohrabacher
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
— James Forrestal
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
— Emily Greene Balch
So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.
— Rory Bremner