The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood 2001
Category: Defence, War, Eurosceptic
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
Duke of Wellington
We hear war called murder. It is not. It is suicide.
Ramsay MacDonald 1930
Let it be known that war with a colony is war with England.
Viscount Cardwell
Category: Commonwealth & Empire, War
There has never been a war yet which if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary fplk could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war.
Ernest Bevin 1945
Category: War
There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.
Arthur Balfour 12/12/1905
Category: War
It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.
Lord Aberdeen
Category: War
Preparation for war is the sweet guaranty for peace.
Theodore Roosevelt 1897
As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, calling for rearmament.
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in a state of armed conflict.
Anthony Eden 10/1956
If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely, one day war will abolish us from the earth.
Harry Truman
Category: War
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
Category: War
