3 December 2020 Smedley Butler War is just a racket… I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.
3 December 2020 Sammy Davis, Jr. I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon’s urgings for me to go there.
3 December 2020 Loren Eiseley Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.
3 December 2020 P. D. James I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.
3 December 2020 Ann Coulter We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.
3 December 2020 George H. W. Bush I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.
3 December 2020 James Buchan Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.
3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
3 December 2020 John Cusack I remember the ’80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.
3 December 2020 Ellen Key Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
3 December 2020 Conan O'Brien Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn’t changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he’s started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.
3 December 2020 Anatole France War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.
3 December 2020 L. Neil Smith What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.
3 December 2020 George McGovern I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
3 December 2020 Charles Schumer A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.
3 December 2020 Mao Zedong War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes The condition of man… is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
