3 December 2020 William Tecumseh Sherman I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
3 December 2020 Duke of Wellington All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.
3 December 2020 Heraclitus God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
3 December 2020 Dennis Hastert Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
3 December 2020 Arthur Henderson We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
3 December 2020 Al Gore Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
3 December 2020 Doc Hastings We owe our World War II veterans – and all our veterans – a debt we can never fully repay.
3 December 2020 Jurgen Habermas I consider Bush’s decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
3 December 2020 U Thant The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
3 December 2020 Curtis LeMay Killing Japanese didn’t bother me very much at that time… I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It’s a delusion to think it’s gone away.
3 December 2020 Tom Hiddleston It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don’t have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
3 December 2020 Jane Goodall But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
3 December 2020 John Wooden I’m not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I’m going to say I’m opposed to war. But I’m also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
3 December 2020 Germaine Greer Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don’t pry into other people’s business.
3 December 2020 Michael Morpurgo War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the ‘pity of war’ as Wilfred Owen called it.
3 December 2020 Jane Goodall War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
3 December 2020 Paul Valery War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.
3 December 2020 Hamid Karzai The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
3 December 2020 George Galloway I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States’ apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
