Quotes about War
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
- Virginia Woolf
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
- Martin Luther
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Virginia Woolf
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
- John F. Kennedy
We still seek no wider war.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?
- Mike Evans
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
- Dick Cheney