Top 649 War Quotes

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

Gresham Barrett

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.

Sargent Shriver

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Frans de Waal

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Ted Koppel

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

Condoleezza Rice

The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general American population having to make any sacrifices. It goes on, and so do we.

Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.

Stanley Hauerwas

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

Stanley Hauerwas

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