Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

Otto von Bismarck

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

Patch Adams

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

Philip Gibbs

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

P. J. O'Rourke

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

Paul Robeson

Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!

Patricia Sun

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Richard Cobden

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

Rahm Emanuel

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

Robert Fisk

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

Robert Wilson Lynd

I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.

Rand Paul

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

Richard Perle

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

Romain Rolland

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

Robert Toombs

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.

Steven Pinker

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Sun Tzu

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris