Declare War Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
— Art Hoppe
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The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
— James Madison
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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
— Joseph Story
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I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war.
— Marvin Kalb
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to…
— Val Kilmer
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war.…
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians…
— Marie Antoinette
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Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
— Henry David Thoreau
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It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
— Florence King
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Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now…
— J. C. Hutchins
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We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.
— Sheikh Abdullah
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population.…
— Ian MacKaye
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The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within…
— George W. Norris
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
— Herbert Hoover
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I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Declare War Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Declare War Quotes as follows: