War Quotes

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Ron Paul

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Neil Young

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

George Orwell

Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

Don Williams, Jr

We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

David Gemmell

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

Margot Kidder

Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.

Bob Dylan

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

George S. Patton Jr.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

Jorja Fox

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Stefan Waydenfeld

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war

Albert Einstein

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

Geraldine Ferraro

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

John Kenneth Galbraith

People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs people do Civil War re-enactments people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.

Anna Kendrick

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.

Dana Rohrabacher

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

George H. W. Bush

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Sheryl Crow