War Quotes

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

Ben Barnes

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Robert Foster Bennett

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

Here we will solve with laws and dollars, problems that too many people around the world still must solve with violence and civil war.

Marco Rubio

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

Our strategy is one of preventing war by making it self-evident to our enemies that they're going to get their clocks cleaned if they start one.

John W. Vessey, Jr.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

Michael Ondaatje

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Henry A. Kissinger

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

Sophia Loren

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

Ronald Reagan

I can't go to war with paparazzi.

Daniel Craig

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

Stanislaw Lec

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

Bernard Baruch

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.

Gilbert Parker

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

Harry Browne

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

Sun Tzu