Politician Quote by Jon Krakauer

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse

“Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.”

— James MacGregor Burns

“That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What a splendid little war!”

— John Hayes

“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we used to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to…

— Jim Butcher

“War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down,…

— George Orwell

“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the…

— James L. Stokesbury

“When the war seems inevitable, work more to make it evitable! No man gain honour by making war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“History alone looks upon war as a grand achievement; all else look upon it as a dreadful last resort.”

— Dennis L. McKiernan

“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a game of…

— Leo Tolstoy