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War Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.
- There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for…
- Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool…
- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners…
- Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like…
- Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing…
- War will exist as long as there's a food chain.
- The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance, they invented algebra.…
- I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized…
- The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit…
- The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the…
- The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to…
- War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
- War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
More War Quotes
- Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. — William Shakespeare
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare