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“Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?" "Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.”
Alexander Woollcott (1887–1943) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Paris Taxi-Driver Considered as an Artist," in Enchanted Aisles (1924).
“The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds— The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up an' down!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Liner She's a Lady, Stanza 1 (1895).
“For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: For All We Have and Are, Stanza 1 (1914).
“Four things greater than all things are,— Women and Horses and Power and War.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two things greater than all things are, The first is Love, and the second War.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again! There's no discharge in the war!”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) first seen 1903 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
“Let Will but set its appetite on war, And Reason will promptly invent offence, And furnish blood with arguments.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
John Kerry (born 1943) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sept 6, 2004
“I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium.”
John Kerry (born 1943) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unidentified 31 October 2006 statement
“If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a . It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed by Roger Friedman, "God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut", FoxNews.com (11 November 2002)
“The band at the far end of the hall, amplified to the din of an elephant charge, smashed and hewed at the tune as though in a holy war against silence.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Concerning Stalin's merits, an entirely sufficient number of books, pamphlets and studies had already been written in his lifetime. The role of Stalin in the preparation and execution of the socialist revolution, in the Civil War, and in the fight for the construction of socialism in our country, is universally known.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Stalinist Legacy (1984)
“We declare war against socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed nationalism.... We intend to be an active minority, attract the proletariat away from the official Socialist party. But if the middle class thinks that we are going to be their lightning rods, they are mistaken.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mussolini’s speech in Milan (March 23, 1919), quoted in Stanislao G. Pugliese, Fascism, Anti-fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present, Oxford, England, UK, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., (2004) …
“This is what we propose now to the Treasury: either the property owners expropriate themselves, or we summon the masses of war veterans to march against these obstacles and overthrow them.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Mussolini as leader of the Revolutionary Fascist Party (1919) in Fascism and Big Business by Daniel Guerin (1973) p. 83. From article in Mussolini’s Popolo d’Italia on June 19, 1919.
“The Socialists, and I am still one, although an exasperated one, never brought forward the question of irredentism, but left it to the Republicans. We are in favour of a national war. But there are also reasons, purely socialist in character, which spur us on towards intervention.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mussolini the ‘Man of the War’” speech delivered at the Mazza, Parma (13 December 1914) p. 15
“Social Democracy seems to have a very ambiguous position. First of all one wonders why it is called Social Democracy. A democracy is already necessarily social; we think, however that this Social Democracy is a kind of Trojan horse which holds within it an army against whom we shall always be at war.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Attitude of Fascismo towards the Popular Party. The Vatican and Social Democracy,” speech (21 June 1921) delivered in the Italian parliament Chamber, p. 203
“Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Talks with Mussolini, Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933). Mussolini’s interview was in 1932.
“War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
“The watchword is only one, categorical and challenging for everyone. It already flies across and lights the hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: Winning! And we will win, in order to finally give a long period of peace with justice to Italy, to Europe, to the world. **From the declaration of war's announce, 10 June 1940”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mussolini’s speech in Rome, Italy, February 23, 1941. Published in the New York Times, February 24, 1941.
“War is the normal state of the people.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Duce (1922-42)" in Time magazine (August 2, 1943)
“The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them. A change in leadership is required to change these outcomes.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump: Why Couldn't the Civil War Have Been Avoided? (May 1, 2017)
“I'm the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent, and very easily, World War III.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. I will get the problem solved. And I will get it solved in rapid order and it will take me no longer than one day, I know exactly what to say to each of them, I got along very well with Putin.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump later reuses the phrase "before I even arrive at the Oval Office" in #June 2024 in Philadelphia
“For three years, Biden and his radical left allies have waged war on American auto workers in his ridiculous crusade to force everyone into electric cars, ridiculous regulations kill more than half of US auto jobs and decimate the suppliers that they decimated already, decimate the suppliers and it’s going to decimate your jobs.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have potential for a war outside of Ukraine - Russia. We should have kept Bagram because Bagram is one of the largest military bases in the world cost us billions of dollars to build forget about Afghanistan, it's one hour away from where China is building their nuclear weapons.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and we will restore, as we had just four years ago, peace through strength. They respected our country and they respected your President.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 18 May 2024 in Dallas, Texas in speech to NRA aired on Fox, transcribed 20 May 2024
“There will be no future under Comrade Kamala Harris, because she will take us into a Nuclear World War III , She will never be respected by the Tyrants of the World!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 23 August 2024 in "Harris’s convention speech sparks live rant from outraged Trump", The Guardian
“I am the Peace President, and only I will stop World War III!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Loses It on the Cheneys After They Endorse Harris: ‘Irrelevant RINO, Along with His Daughter!’ Mediaite (September 6, 2024)
“And I'll get the war with Ukraine and Russia ended. If I'm President-Elect, I'll get it done before even becoming president.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harris-Trump presidential debate transcript, ABC News (September 10, 2024)
“He’d take all the candy away very quickly. She wouldn’t have any idea what happened. It would be like a grand chess master playing a beginner. We would lose our country or be in World War III,because she’d get exasperated. She’s in no way able to handle him. He’s a fierce individual.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's a radical war hawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Referring to Liz Cheney, reported in Arizona prosecutor investigating Trump for saying Cheney should face gunfire Reuters (October 31, 2024)
“I stopped the war between Pakistan and India.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claimed without providing evidence, quoted in "For the third time, India pushes back against Trump’s dubious boasts" MSNBC (June 19, 2025)
“I’m sure that Ukraine thought they were going to win, you’re going to beat someone that’s 15 times your size ... you don’t go into a war that’s 15 times your size.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Repeats His Favourite Kremlin Talking Point In Latest Anti-Ukraine Outburst" Yahoo / Huffington Post (August 27, 2025)
“‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning...’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Chipocalypse Now': Trump threatens Chicago with deportations and Department of War ahead of potential crackdown" NBC News (September 6, 2025)
“After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump declares end of Israel-Hamas war, but experts see the hard work as just beginning ABC News (October 14, 2025)
“I think the war is very complete, pretty much.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today. They have agreed never to have a nuclear weapon, something that we insisted on; that was the whole purpose. That was 95 percent of it.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We ended the war with Iran today," Trump says CNN (June 12, 2026)
“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source Commencement Address at Dartmouth College June 9th, 2002
“We remind our churches to maintain the emphasis on the war against indecent dressing”
Peter Akinola (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Pastoral Letter September 2006)
“What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“War is like love, it always finds a way.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles Are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, Let us demand the freedom of the elbow To knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, Provided he loves peace, Is a greater lover of the arts Than any so-called art-lover Who loves the arts of war.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freedom for Whom", as translated in Brecht on Brecht : An Improvisation (1967) by George Tabori, p. 18
“Events cast long shadows before. One such event would be a war. But how are shadows to be seen When total darkness fills the screen?”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alphabet" [Alfabet] from "Five Children's Songs" (1934), trans. John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 239
“And those he met who had been hurt by war and who still hated the late enemy—those who would have been happy to go back and kill some more, reckoning vital risk well worth it—those he considered mad, and forgot them.”
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source