Declare War Quotes

#1. When our brains declare war on our very existence.

Jenny Lawson

#2. No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?

Daniel Webster

#3. To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

Sandor Katz

#4. The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.

Caitlin Doughty

#5. If Iran invaded Israel, it's up to Congress to declare war.

Ron Paul

#6. I believe men need to get together and talk about what it means to be male - to share dreams, business ideas, ministry visions, and struggles, and to pray together and declare war on the weakness among us.

Bruce Lengeman

#7. I will say, nothing in my time in the Senate has more surprised me than senators and House members want to weigh in on everything under the sun, but they do not want to weigh in on a clearly defined constitutional duty to declare war. It just stuns me.

Tim Kaine

#8. (Carter): "I've been protecting you since I joined the Mauricio family. You were why I joined them in the first place."
(Emma): "You did all that for me?"
(Carter): "I would declare war for you.

Tijan

#9. They're definitely going to declare war tomorrow. In the morning. It's probably timed so that the nation can get down on its collective knees in church and pray for deliverance.' 'Oh, yes, war is always so Christian, isn't it?

Kate Atkinson

#10. Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.

Art Hoppe

#11. On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

Lewis Blaine Hershey

#12. It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

Florence King

#13. The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.

John Barrasso

#14. The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Rand Paul

#15. Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

Lauren Willig

#16. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

#17. I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Preston Sturges

#19. We must declare war on war, so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Sheikh Abdullah

#20. Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

#22. We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

Nelson Mandela

#23. The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

Ted Cruz

#24. We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Eugene McCarthy

#25. It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

Joseph Story

#26. I don't know what the point of that would be. We can't just declare war on people because we don't understand what they do." "That, my friend, is pinko commie bullshit. Exactly the type of thing I would expect to come out of your mouth.

Andersen Prunty

#27. Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

Val Kilmer

#28. If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. When we declare war for peace, we may win the war and lose the battle.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace ... we just need to declare it.

John Lennon

#31. Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. You did all of that for me?
I would declare war for you

Tijan

#33. declare war on those parts of themselves that keep them from exceptional lives.

Stephen Mansfield

#34. We all think we're on our own side, until the time comes to declare war.

Max Gladstone

#35. I believe that the power to declare war is most important in limiting the powers of the national government in regard to the rights of its citizens, but that it does not require Congress to give its approval before the president uses force abroad.

John Yoo

#36. isn't the men who declare war who have to wage it. Only those of us who live in the field truly understand the realities of power.

Robin Parrish

#37. Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

Ferdinand Lassalle

#38. No, this is pretty much the same version I read," I said, because it felt too damn late to back down. I imagine that from time to time some similar situation has led governments to declare war." pg.57

Helen Oyeyemi

#39. The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

George William Norris

#40. U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to declare war.

Marvin Kalb

#41. Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

#42. The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear ... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

Rand Paul

#43. No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.

James Mattis

#44. are we willing to demonize a population, declare a war against them, and then stand back and heap shame and contempt upon them for failing to behave like model citizens while under attack?

Michelle Alexander

#45. I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

Haj Amin Al-Husseini

#46. Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#47. I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.

Albert Einstein

#48. After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Kenzaburo Oe

#49. Had Brussels's rulers not opted to declare it an open city and thereby exempt it from bombardment during the Second World War, it might have been reduced to rubble.

Teju Cole

#50. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Abraham Lincoln

#51. This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

Neill Blomkamp

#52. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Thomas Paine

#53. But the greatest battle of all is with yourself - your weaknesses, your emotions, your lack of resolution in seeing things through to the end. You must declare unceasing war on yourself.

Robert Greene

#54. It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

William H. Stewart

#55. I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.

Muhammad Ali

#56. To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexander Haig

#57. Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them ... mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.

Javier Marias

#58. Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation.

George Aiken

#59. [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

Ronald Reagan

#60. All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

Voltaire

#61. People are worried about if somebody's going to say that I'm Islamophobic or what have you. This is craziness because we are at war. That's why I asked congress, go ahead and declare the war .

Benjamin Carson

#62. How do we keep convincing young people to die in fights they didn't start for reasons we're too devious to tell the truth about? It's way too easy for governments to spend other people's blood. Maybe only the sons and daughters of those who declare the wars should be allowed to fight and die.

Dan Groat

#63. I am asking the Congress, which represents the people, to declare a war on ISIS so that we can begin the process of excising that cancer and begin the healing process, and bring peace, prosperity, and safety back to America.

Benjamin Carson

#64. Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

Albert Einstein

#65. To give, is to declare a war of sharing.

Justine Monikue

#66. The American republics have no standing armies to intimidate a discontented minority; but as no minority has as yet been reduced to declare open war, the necessity of an army has not been felt.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#67. So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.

Phil Ochs

#68. It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.

Randall Wallace

#69. I had come here intending to declare a possible war and instead ended up planning a dinner date with my father at Applebee's.

Ilona Andrews