951 private quotes tagged war

“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

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”— Winston Churchill

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”— Winston Churchill

“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”— R. Buckminster Fuller

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”— Winston Churchill

“The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.”— John F. Kennedy

“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”— George Orwell

“I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.”— Thomas Jefferson

“Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.”— Will Rogers

“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”— H. G. Wells

“The real war will never get in the books.”— Walt Whitman

“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”— Ernest Hemingway

“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.”— Robert Anton Wilson

“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”— Thomas Jefferson

“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”— Heraclitus

“Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.”— George Bernard Shaw

“Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.”— Meir Kahane

“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

“A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.”— Henry Van Dyke

“For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.”— Conrad Black

“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

“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

“The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.”— Arthur Henderson

“The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.”— Nancy Pelosi

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”— Tony Benn