We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
We make war that we may live in peace.
What do you do when you get a draft notice and you think a war is wrong? And I struggled with that for months prior to my being inducted into the army, and I’m still struggling with it, 40 years later.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
A true war story is never moral.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that’s based on religion.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming ‘War Horse’ on Dartmoor.
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We’re reaching a time that we’ll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
To hold a pen is to be at war.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.
In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.
If it hadn’t been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue – not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren’t shy about what they don’t like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule of law. They really dislike the police, and certainly get the credit for the war between black men and police.
It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a ‘third force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
Our soldiers fought in the Korean War to push back communism. As a result of their effort and the effort of our allies, South Korea is free today.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
War is at its best barbarism.
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a special place in the history of futility – a war without clear purpose, a war whose resolution would ultimately make the world a far worse place.
