Quotes by Politicians - Page 77

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
Jeannette Rankin
Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.
Patrick J. Buchanan
War is young men dying and old men talking
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]
Winston S. Churchill
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Winston S. Churchill
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
John F. Kerry
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors
Winston S. Churchill
Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
Donald Rumsfeld
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Göring
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Ron Paul
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
Adolf Hitler
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston S. Churchill
I am a war president.
George W. Bush
Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pitiful and pitied by no one, why have I come to the ignominy of this detestable old age, who was ruler of two kingdoms, mother of two kings? My guts are torn from me, my family is carried off and removed from me. The young king [crown prince Henry, †1183] and the count of Britanny [prince Geoffrey, †1186] sleep in dust, and their most unhappy mother is compelled to be irremediably tormented by the memory of the dead. Two sons remain to my solace, who today survive to punish me, miserable and condemned. King Richard [the Lionheart] is held in chains [in captivity with Emperor Henry VI of Germany]. His brother, John, depletes his kingdom with iron [the sword] and lays it waste with fire. In all things the Lord has turned cruel to me and attacked me with the harshness of his hand. Truly his wrath battles against me: my sons fight amongst themselves, if it is a fight where where one is restrained in chains, the other, adding sorrow to sorrow, undertakes to usurp the kingdom of the exile by cruel tyranny. Good Jesus, who will grant that you protect me in hell and hide me until your fury passes, until the arrows which are in me cease, by which my whole spirit is sucked
Eleanor of Aquitaine
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Tony Benn
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
Mao Zedong
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston S. Churchill
Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald Reagan
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Leon Trotsky
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston S. Churchill
In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,In Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will.
Winston S. Churchill
I think war is a dangerous place.
George W. Bush
Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma
John F Kennedy
One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
George W. Bush
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel Castro
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Winston S. Churchill
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
In times of war, the law falls s
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Housing without people, and people without housing.
Milad Hanna
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.
Charles Maurras
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Herman Cain
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by,and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
J.C. Watts Jr.
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
James Madison
Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.
Kinky Friedman
Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
B.R. Ambedkar
When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
Margaret Chase Smith
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
An army of the people is invincible!
Mao Zedong
This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
Louise Bagshawe
Just remember, honey, you only have one heart.
Louise Bagshawe
To identity friend or foe is often impossible, unless someone commits a hostile act.
General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf
I have no trouble with my enemies - I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends... They're the ones that keep me walking the floors at night!
Warren G. Harding
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
William Wilberforce
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.
Ruth Rendell
Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?
Benjamin Wood
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey
it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
Barack Obama
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness in another.
Eustace Budgell
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
C.J. Langenhoven