Top 1200 Medieval War Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people.

War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

The Obama campaign decimated the newly regenerated anti-war movement in 2008. And he definitely isn't anti-war.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

I am insulted by the persistent asertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.