Famous Quotes About war

I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.