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War Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
- ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
- A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at…
- There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations;…
- After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.
- Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man…
- Councils of War never fight.
- Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only…
- The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The…
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
- To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
- Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
- If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman;…
- Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is…
- The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as…
- Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none…
- Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and…
- War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious…
- A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace
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