Declares War Quotes

#1. Iraq began destroying those missiles they don't have over the weekend. See, President Bush may be the smartest military president in history. First, he gets Iraq to destroy all of their own weapons. Then he declares war.

Jay Leno

#2. All of the diseases that modern medicine declares war on never seem to touch any of those ninety-year-old farmers who have lived on bacon and eggs and butter for almost a century. The media, following current low-fat medical wisdom, calls that a paradox. We don't.

T.S. Wiley

#3. Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.

Gore Vidal

#4. It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

Christie Cote

#5. Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

Duke Ellington

#6. Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Maya Angelou

#8. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Felix O. Hartmann

#9. My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.

Thomas Pynchon

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

Marvin Kalb

#11. Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

Rodney Dangerfield

#13. Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

Noam Chomsky

#14. This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Henry David Thoreau

#16. From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Marcus Aurelius

#17. We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

J.I. Packer