Quotes about war

On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters … We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

Nelson Mandela

The war had been fought to make sure that the smallest state should have the power to assert its lawful rights against even the greatest, and this will probably be for several generations an enduring fact.

Winston Churchill

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

George Carlin

War at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Abraham Lincoln

We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth – but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

John F. Kennedy

Have the stresses of this war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of collective farms?

Winston Churchill

The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desperate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.

Winston Churchill

War will end when people stop showing up for it.

George Carlin

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.

Ted Turner

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Abraham Lincoln