Wars Quotes

1277 quotes by 928 authors

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now. — Thomas Gage
World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when… — David Frum
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which… — A. N. Wilson
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,… — Simon Schama
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger. — Thucydides
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered. — Witold Gombrowicz
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits… — Paul Hellyer
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them… — Alfred Nobel
The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets. — Zainab Salbi
War is not a computer-generated missile striking a digital map. War is the color of earth as it explodes in our faces, the sound of… — Zainab Salbi
All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction. — Unknown Author
Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers… — John Jackson Miller
Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah… — Ted Rall
Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism,… — Ralph Metzner
It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or… — Claire Holden Rothman
Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood. — Pope Francis
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading… — Unknown Author
We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars. — Ron Paul
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us… — Ray Bradbury
Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more… — Howard Zinn

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