Quotes of: World-wars Keyword

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

George C. Marshall

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

George McGovern

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

George McGovern

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

George McGovern

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

George Orwell

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

Garry Trudeau

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

Henry Allingham

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Havelock Ellis

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

Hanoi Hannah

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Herbert Hoover

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

Herman Kahn

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

Hideki Tojo

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

H. G. Wells

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Juan Cole

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

Janine di Giovanni

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

Jean Giraudoux

I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.

Jonathan Haidt

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

James Longstreet

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

Jim Leach