War Quotes

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

George McGovern

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!

Herbert Hoover

Only the dead have seen the end of war

Plato

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

John F. Kennedy

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

Spinoza

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

War is the unfolding of miscalculations

Barbara W. Tuchman

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Donald Kagan

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The liberation war is a blood shedding revolutionary method of politics.

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Barack Obama

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

Barack Obama