Quotes about War, page 17

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end...

Quote by Ron Paul about war

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Quote by Ron Paul about war

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Quote by Ron Paul about war

And I have lived since as you have in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about war

I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

In the terrible tragedy of the war there was a unique fact: the deportation and murder of Jews and resistance fighters by the Nazis.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war

The Patriot Act is essential to our continued success in the war on terror here at home.

Quote by Mike Pence about war