Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Robert E. Lee

Obamacare is making people divorce so they can afford it. And divorce hurts women and the children, and that is Obamacare and their War on Women.

Rush Limbaugh

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

A. S. Byatt

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Silvio Berlusconi

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Smedley Butler

We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.

Smedley Butler

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

Sebastian Coe

I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

Stephen Gaghan

Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus.

Stanley Hauerwas

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

Sebastian Junger

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

Ty Cobb

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Ted Turner

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

Umberto Eco

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

Victor Davis Hanson

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

William Halsey

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Wilfred Owen

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman