war Quotes

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I’m not your president. You have that president today.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.