Wars Quotes

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Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect… — Wilfrid Sheed
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern… — Winston Churchill
true wars are never won — E E Cummings
We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them… — Charles Lindbergh
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of… — Charles Caleb Colton
World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just… — Kurt Vonnegut
Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice… — Ian Doescher
There is again a living prophet on the earth speaking in the name of the Lord. And how we need such guidance! Our times are… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms… — Alexander Pope
When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
The American continents, by the free and independent condition that they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future… — John Quincy Adams
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read… — Ernest Hemingway
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against… — George Steiner
It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money… — Ron Paul
No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone… — Roseanne Barr
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. — Ron Fournier
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. — Benjamin Franklin
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. — Benjamin Franklin

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