Quotes about War
Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
— John Milton
...the exchange of students...should be vastly expanded...Information and education are powerful forces in support of peace. Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
People say, 'How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil?' You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you.
— George W. Bush
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
The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.
— Pope Francis