3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
3 December 2020 Sharon Stone I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
3 December 2020 Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
3 December 2020 Madeleine Albright I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
3 December 2020 Black Kettle We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
3 December 2020 Neville Chamberlain We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
3 December 2020 Phyllis Schlafly No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
3 December 2020 Sarah Palin New terms used like, ‘overseas contingency operation’ instead of the word ‘war’ – that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can’t spin our way out of this threat.
3 December 2020 George Wald There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war – nothing material or ideological – no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
3 December 2020 George Orwell War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
3 December 2020 Sarah Palin Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren’t civil war, they are democracy at work, and that’s beautiful.
3 December 2020 Sun Tzu Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
3 December 2020 King Hussein I Nothing is more useless in developing a nation’s economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
3 December 2020 John Boehner They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn’t part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.
3 December 2020 Diane Kruger I made a French film called ‘Merry Christmas’ which is a very European film. It’s a World War I piece.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
3 December 2020 Ernie Pyle War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
3 December 2020 Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul Another term for preventive war is aggressive war – starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
3 December 2020 George McGovern I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
3 December 2020 Carroll Quigley Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
