3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
3 December 2020 Golda Meir We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
3 December 2020 John Foster Dulles Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.
3 December 2020 Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, ‘impose democracy.’ We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
3 December 2020 Douglas MacArthur One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
3 December 2020 John Maynard Keynes The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hardy Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
3 December 2020 Neville Chamberlain However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
3 December 2020 Major R. Owens It’s a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James Buchan The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain’s belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
3 December 2020 George S. Patton Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
3 December 2020 Chelsea Clinton I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
3 December 2020 E. W. Howe A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.
