War Quotes · Page 477

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

— Sarah Palin

Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was…

— George Orwell

“...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...”

— John Geddes

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

— Gustave de Molinari

Im a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

— Bruce Dickinson

...we feel that our honor and safety require that Ft. Sumter should be in our possession at the very earliest moment.

— Francis Wilkinson Pickens

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We…

— Howard Zinn

“From the bonny bells of heather, They brewed a drink long syne, Was sweeter far than honey, Was stronger far than wine.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or…

— Daniel Ellsberg

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really…

— Luka Modric

“Frowning, Garrett ran a hand through his hair. “How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn’t that a conflict…

— Kerrelyn Sparks

We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a…

— Erich Fromm

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert…

— John Gimlette

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It’s not the absence of storms that sets…

— Max Lucado

["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because…

— Janusz Kaminski

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the…

— Robert Runcie

“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas…

— Ibram X. Kendi

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is…

— Chrystia Freeland

The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led…

— Condoleezza Rice

Never be victim of inner conflict. Listen to your inner voice and fight your way bravely.

— Anil Sinha

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield…

— Thor Heyerdahl

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry…

— Christopher Flynn

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

— Henry Ford

Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior, which has existed throughout history, by…

— James Nachtwey

“In war the most testing moments are those of peace , for a dead man lying in the grass makes the living…

— Andreï Makine

My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during…

— Mona Eltahawy

In history love is war,in science love is a reaction,in math love is a problem,in my heart it is you.

— Adriana

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

— Walter Savage Landor

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

— Edward Gibbon

“We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak…

— Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

— Ira Sachs

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

— Monique Wittig

“All autumn, the chafe and jar of nuclear war; we have talked our extinction to death. I swim like a minnow behind…

— Robert Lowell

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after…

— Barbara Castle

“He didn't know how love managed to be a garden one moment and war the next. He was at war now, his…

— Paula McLain

Clear your mind of clutter, congestion and conflict. Free your mind of unproductive, nonessential thoughts about yourself and your life.

— Anonymous