Wars Quotes

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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. — Winston Churchill
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wars are begun by frightened men. — Tom Clancy
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants. — Stephen Ambrose
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. — Simon Hoggart
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will… — Meg Whitman
The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. — Ismail Serageldin
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I… — Michel de Montaigne
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary. — Edmund Burke
Through electing officials that will protect the Constitution and commit themselves to the rights of the people and the health of the nation, we will… — Harry Belafonte
There is little chance that aliens from two societies anywhere in the Galaxy will be culturally close enough to really 'get along.' This is something… — Seth Shostak
All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300… — Gaylord Nelson
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. — Carl Sagan
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not… — Adolf Hitler
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin
It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,… — Herman Boerhaave
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense. — George Wald

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