War Quotes
After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
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George_W Bush
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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Barack Obama
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
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Ben Franklin
America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
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George_W Bush
And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?
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John McCain
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
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Ronald Reagan
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
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Hillary Clinton
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
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George_W Bush
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Abraham Lincoln
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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Thomas Jefferson
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
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Julius Caesar
Gonzales's nomination may very well do us more harm internationally because of his relationship with the terror memos and that is a different story.
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Joe Biden
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
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Thomas Jefferson
I came, I saw, I conquered.
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Julius Caesar
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Barack Obama
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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Thomas Jefferson
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Albert Einstein
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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Socrates
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
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Barack Obama
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
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Mark Twain
I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
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John McCain
If it succeeds, the political process, I predict you'll see a drawdown of American forces by this time next year.
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Joe Biden
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
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Robin Williams
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
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Julius Caesar
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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Abraham Lincoln
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.
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Thomas Jefferson
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
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Julius Caesar
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
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George_W Bush
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Barack Obama
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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
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Ronald Reagan
Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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Ronald Reagan
My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.
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John McCain
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
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Confucius
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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Abraham Lincoln
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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Abraham Lincoln
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
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Mark Twain
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
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Ronald Reagan
On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.
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John McCain
One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
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Newt Gingrich
One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power.
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Joe Biden
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
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John McCain
Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.
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John McCain
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
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Barack Obama
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People don't start wars, governments do.
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Ronald Reagan
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
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Barack Obama
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
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Abraham Lincoln
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
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George_W Bush
Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
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Ronald Reagan
The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
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Barack Obama
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The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
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Ronald Reagan
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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Thomas Jefferson
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
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George_W Bush
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Abraham Lincoln
The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
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George_W Bush
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
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Ronald Reagan
The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
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Barack Obama
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There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.
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Barack Obama
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There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
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Colin Powell
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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Colin Powell
Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.
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Ronald Reagan
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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George Washington
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
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Thomas Jefferson
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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John McCain
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
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John McCain
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.
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Colin Powell
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.
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Colin Powell
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
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Ben Franklin
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Barack Obama
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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
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John McCain
We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.
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Ronald Reagan
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
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Ronald Reagan
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
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Barack Obama
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When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
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George_W Bush
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Barack Obama
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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Albert Einstein