3 December 2020 Lyndon B. Johnson I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
3 December 2020 Bianca Jagger The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
3 December 2020 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.
3 December 2020 Norman Schwarzkopf First of all, Saddam did not win the war, even though he says he did, I mean, you know, that’s a joke and everybody in the world knows it.
3 December 2020 John Adams I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
3 December 2020 John le Carre During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
3 December 2020 Jane Seymour My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.
3 December 2020 Michael Moore We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
3 December 2020 Dana Rohrabacher And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
3 December 2020 Larry David I couldn’t be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.
3 December 2020 St. Jerome Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
3 December 2020 Mao Zedong Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
3 December 2020 James P. Hoffa We didn’t start this war – the right wing did. We’re tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it’s about jobs and it’s about rebuilding America.
3 December 2020 Cindy Sheehan If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
3 December 2020 Herman Kahn World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
3 December 2020 Noah Webster All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
3 December 2020 Cindy Sheehan When I was growing up, it was ‘Communists’. Now it’s ‘Terrorists’. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
