Quotes About Declaring War

#1. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

Adolf Hitler

#2. The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

Tony Blair

#4. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

George Washington

#5. Take caution when declaring war because you may believe it will be easy, but war will always end in despair.

Anonymous

#6. How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?

Thomas Aquinas

#7. So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even *think* you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you.

Jim Butcher

#8. 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

#9. Before the hardcore idiots began cooking up bombs and declaring war on the System, a System that had ultimately gotten tired of their posturing and rolled over in its sleep, obliterating them.

Charles Stross

#10. Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.

David Mitchell

#11. If you want peace in your life, you have to stop declaring war.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Aylin stepped outside before Danello could argue further. What's going on
Nya's declaring war on the Duke he said.
I thought we alredy did that.

Janice Hardy

#13. When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden.

Robert Fisk

#14. War was ... the chief or maybe the only source of patriotism, and many a politician, from prehistory up to this morning, unified a discontented citizenry by pointing out a national danger and declaring war on it.

Barbara Holland

#15. The principal task of the messiah, who was popularly believed to be the descendant of King David, was to rebuild David's kingdom and reestablish the nation of Israel. Thus, to call oneself the messiah at the time of the Roman occupation was tantamount to declaring war on Rome.

Reza Aslan

#16. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.

George Orwell

#17. The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

James Madison

#18. Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

Charles Krauthammer

#19. Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Sean MacBride

#20. How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don't give your chain to jerks!

Bill Crawford

#21. Review our priorities, ask the question; what's the best use of our time right now?

Alan Lakein

#22. The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation.

Rosemarie Yusen

#23. When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.

Ron Kaufman

#24. Look into the face of a man who will kill you for a belief and your nostrils will snuff up the scent of abomination. Hear a speech declaring a holy war and, I assure you, your ears should catch the clink of evil's scales and the dragging of its monstrous tail over the purity of the language.

Terry Pratchett

#25. He thought of partners as people who had come together out of a complex set of shared values and interests, not out of short-term economic convenience.

Alice Schroeder

#26. On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

Thomas Paine

#27. Our currency is what we are able to make.

Robert Genn

#28. Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Gloria Steinem

#29. I always distrust the word art when it is applied to acting.

Anthony Hopkins

#30. Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#31. (Fairy tales, as G. K. Chesterton* once pointed out, are not true. They are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.) V

Neil Gaiman

#32. Think about where you'd like to be a year from now and use every bit of your imagination to visualize it. You'll need to do this with a serious intent if you want to make your wishes your reality.

Karen McQuestion

#33. God wants to bring joy not pain, peace not war, healing not suffering. Therefore, instead of declaring anything and everything to be the will of God, we must be willing to ask ourselves where in the midst of our pains and sufferings we can discern the loving presence of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#34. 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

#35. I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.

Mike Lee

#36. 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

#37. NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Bertolt Brecht

#38. The truth is, we want to be known; we truly do. But we're afraid. If you see the real me, will you run away? Am I even worth being known? Will the real me bore you? Scare you? Repulse you? And so we hide.

Gary L. Thomas

#39. The memory of his voice made her feel warm and happy, though she could not explain why

Anamika Mishra