War Quotes

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Martin Scorsese

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

William Hague

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

Cindy Sheehan

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

Dave Barry

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

Gavin DeGraw

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Winston Churchill

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

War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Charles Caleb Colton

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Gene Tierney

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Nicolas Sarkozy

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

Bertrand Russell

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Jason Mraz

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

George Orwell

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Barack Obama

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 a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln