Quotes about War

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

We hope that diplomacy works before you ever use force. The hardest decision a president makes is ever to use force.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

Has commerce hitherto done anything more than change the objects of war? Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory? Have there not been as many wars founded upon commercial motives since that has become the prevailing system of nations, as were before occasioned by the cupidity of territory or dominion? Has