Quotes about war

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

Anais Nin

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Albert Einstein

In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

Winston Churchill

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

Barack Obama

I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it.

Benjamin Franklin

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

Confucius

Somebody is always telling us in the papers how to prevent war. There is only one way in the World to prevent war, and that is, for every nation to tend to its own business.

Will Rogers