War Quotes · Page 237

“Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.”

— Ann E. Burg

I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.

— Bill Cunningham

You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.

— Jon Stewart

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

— John F. Kennedy

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The battle for popularity is won, but the war for respect as a whole person is lost.”

— Mary Pipher

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

— Anthony Eden

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

— Evo Morales

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

— Norman Schwarzkopf

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

— Raisa Gorbacheva

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and…

— Anonymous

I think it's very unlikely that we're going to see a trade war between the United States and Mexico because it's in…

— James Carafano

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

— Eduardo Galeano

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual…

— Learned Hand

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as…

— George A. Sheehan

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

— David Icke

I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings…

— Cornel West

Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of…

— John Oliver Killens

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together.…

— Toni Morrison

If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every single war that you see go down is illegal. They're breaking the Geneva Convention, and they're breakin' all kinds of sh*t…

— Prodigy

Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into…

— Ted Rall

“Mankind is focused on earth; he is mostly interested in stupid things like wars or ideological absurdities. What he has to do…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

— David Millar

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

— Anonymous

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

— William Shakespeare

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

— Horace

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

— Leonid Andreyev

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

— Bernhard Langer

“No one leads an army to war, unless they have first served in battle”

— Gaiven Clairmont

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

— Gerhard Schroder

Force loses its legitimacy when it is used instead of free and open discussion.

— Gustavo de Greiff

“Leaders face battles. They don’t run away from troubles.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

— Ray Bradbury

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

— John Major

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.

— Joe Wilson

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

— Arnold Bennett

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”

— James Franck

“Sometimes you can win a war by leaving the battlefield before your army gets killed.”

— Wendy Walker