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“Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch — yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our first priority must always be the security of our nation, and that will be reflected in the budget I send to Congress. My budget supports three great goals for America: We will win this war; we'll protect our homeland; and we will revive our economy.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Members, you and I will work together in the months ahead on other issues: productive farm policy, a cleaner environment, broader home ownership, especially among minorities, and ways to encourage the good work of charities and faith-based groups. I ask you to join me on these important domestic issues in the same spirit of cooperation we've applied to our war against terrorism.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This time of adversity offers a unique moment of opportunity — a moment we must seize to change our culture. Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good. And we have a great opportunity during this time of war to lead the world toward the values that will bring lasting peace.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“America will take the side of brave men and women who advocate these values around the world, including the Islamic world, because we have a greater objective than eliminating threats and containing resentment. We seek a just and peaceful world beyond the war on terror.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq. But if Saddam Hussein does not disarm peacefully, he will be disarmed by force.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our war against terror is proceeding according to the principles that I have made clear to all. Any person involved in committing or planning terrorist attacks against the American people becomes an enemy of this country and a target of American justice.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this different kind of war, we may never sit down at a peace table. But make no mistake about it, we are winning, and we will win.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the national convention of the American Legion, in Nashville, Tennessee (August 31, 2004)
“One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 7, 2006 interview with Katie Couric http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhR04RkBFhs YouTube
“I know the American people understand the stakes in Iraq. They want to win. They will support the war as long as they see a path to victory. Americans can have confidence that we will prevail because thousands of smart, dedicated military and civilian personnel are risking their lives and are working around the clock to ensure our success.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press Conference (October 25, 2006)
“We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Press conference (17 October 2007).
“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror -- the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: President's Radio Address, regarding the President's veto of a bill that would have banned waterboarding as an interrogation technique (March 8, 2008)
“Sixty-three years ago, representatives from around the world gathered in San Francisco to complete the founding of the Charter of the United Nations. They met in the shadow of a devastating war, with grave new dangers on the horizon. They agreed on a historic pledge: To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, and unite their strength to maintain international peace and security.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Huey helps the FBI wage war on terrorism”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker (1992) by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, p. 279
“It is an odd fact that anyone who wishes to start a war must always make it appear that he is fighting in a just cause even if the real motive is naked aggression. Fortunately for the would-be aggressor, a "just cause" is very easy to find.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dark Ages (1968), p. 69
“Probably, the most-often-repeated lesson in history is that foreigners who are called in to help one side in a civil war take over for themselves. It is a lesson that seems never to be learned despite endless repetition.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dark Ages (1968), p. 188
“Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nowhere!" Asimov's Science Fiction (September 1983)
“Trantor could win even such a war, but perhaps not without paying a price that would make victory only a pleasanter name for defeat.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, there must be an end to war and national rivalry and only then could one turn to the internal miseries that, after all, had external conflict as their chief cause.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 864 (Notebook W II 5. Spring 1888, KGW VIII, 3.157-62, KSA 13.365-70)
“War is just another game Tailor made for the insane But make a threat of their annihilation And nobody wants to play If that's the only thing that keeps the peace Then thank God for the bomb”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If none of us believe in war Then can you tell me what the weapon's for? Listen to me everyone If the button is pushed there'll be nowhere to run”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is a terrible thing, and many people return with wounds invisible to the eye.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A sapient species doesn’t reach space unless the members learn to cooperate. They’ll wreck the environment, one way or another, war or straight libertarianism or overbreeding.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. "I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War between the sexes had always seemed silly to Corbell. Too much fraternizing with the enemy, ha-ha.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, no. Murder and war are not the same. The intent is different, and the intent counts for a good deal.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... but the dominance hierarchy itself is not something that natural selection favours or disfavours. What natural selection favours or disfavours is the individual behaviour of which the dominance hierarchy is a manifestation. I would put war and overpopulation in that category.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know, Like a chicken with a fox, He couldn't win the war with ego. Give the kid the pick of pips, And give him all your stripes and ribbons. Now he's sitting in his hole, He might as well have buttons and bows.”
Kate Bush (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The civilised keep alive The territorial war... Erase the race that claim the place And say we dig for ore, Or dangle devils in a bottle And push them from the pull of the Bush.”
Kate Bush (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I don’t believe in a civil war. No matter how agitated the atmosphere gets and no matter how hard the president and his advisers try to aggravate the situation, I am absolutely confident of the people’s common sense.”
Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don John of Austria is going to the war.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) first seen 1787 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prospects on the Rubicon (London: J. Debrett, 1787)
“We love not this French God, the child of hell, Wild War, who breaks the converse of the wise; But though we love kind Peace so well, We dare not even by silence sanction lies. It might be safe our censures to withdraw, And yet, my Lords, not well; there is a higher law.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) first seen 1852 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Third of February, 1852", st. 2 (1852)
“Who can fancy warless men? Warless? War will die out late then. Will it ever? late or soon? Can it, till this outworn earth be dead as yon dead world the moon?”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Such as we were we gave ourselves outright (The deed of gift was many deeds of war) To the land vaguely realizing westward, But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, Such as she was, such as she would become.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, who begun it?” That's what at the end of a war We always say not who won it, Or what it was foughten for.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two great problems hang over the world. War must disappear, and conquest must continue. These two necessities of a growing civilization seemed to exclude each other. How satisfy the one without failing the other? Book V, VII”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close and mute, With folded arms and looks which are Weapons of unvanquished war.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial spirits, Rule the present from the past, On all this world of men inherits Their seal is set.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment a sovereign removes the idea of security and protection from his subjects, and declares that he is everything and they nothing, when he declares that no contract he makes with them can or ought to bind him, he then declares war upon them: he is no longer sovereign; they are no longer subjects.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in opening the impeachment of Warren Hastings (16 February 1788), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Ninth (1899), p. 459
“I must say, that the whole Scheme of the war is mistaken, (or appears to me to be so), for it ought to be, not for Dunkirk, or this or t'other Town—but to drive Jacobinism from the world.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) first seen 1792 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Dr Charles Burney (14/15 September 1793), quoted in P. J. Marshall and John A. Woods (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VII: January 1792–August 1794 (1968), p. 432