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War Quotes by Jimmy Carter
- War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how…
- We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
- There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
- There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
- When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000…
- I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per…
- We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,…
- In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which…
- This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about…
- Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the…
- Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation.…
- The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based…
- When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and…
- My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning…
- Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm…
- War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
- For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood