Wars Quotes

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Hate, Evil

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Goes, Pay, Generation

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past, Poor, Peaceful

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor, Peaceful, Carving

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill

War, Begin, Giants

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald Reagan

Strong, Four, Lifetime

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

Expensive, Follies

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali

Change, Poverty, Nations

People do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald Reagan

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin

Later, Paid, Wartime

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Future, Forget, Past

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, Moral, While

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Charlie Sheen

Time, Rock, Help

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton

Men, May, Victory

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Far, Rule

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster

Mothers, Sure, Meet

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Barack Obama

War, Dumb, Oppose

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.
Ron Paul

War, Another, American

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett

Depression, Two, President

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Patriotism, Nation, Nations

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

War, End, Between

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

Men, Die, Young

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

Women, Days, Intense

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, While, Economic

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Deep, Feeling, Cannot

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Power, Attitude, Hate

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

Men, Brothers, Civil

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

War, Revenge, Defense

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