Quotes containing word "war"

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Definitions and meanings of word "war"

• Noun: the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; example: "thousands of people were killed in the war"

• Noun: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; example: "war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"

• Noun: an active struggle between competing entities; examples: "a price war", "a war of wits", "diplomatic warfare"

• Noun: a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; examples: "the war on poverty", "the war against crime"

• Verb: make or wage war

Featured authors with quotes containing word "war"

William Tecumseh Sherman
18 quotes about war
American Soldier
Tuesday 8 February 1820 - Saturday 14 February 1891
William Lyon Mackenzie King
13 quotes about war
Canadian Leader, Politician
Thursday 17 December 1874 - Saturday 22 July 1950
George Orwell
12 quotes about war
British Novelist, Author, Journalist
Thursday 25 June 1903 - Saturday 21 January 1950
Lester B. Pearson
9 quotes about war
Canadian Statesman, Historian, Politician, Diplomat
Friday 23 April 1897 - Wednesday 27 December 1972
Arthur Henderson
11 quotes about war
British Leader, Politician
Sunday 13 September 1863 - Sunday 20 October 1935
Ron Paul
8 quotes about war
American Author, Politician
Born Tuesday 20 August 1935
Winston Churchill
11 quotes about war
English Statesman, Leader, Politician
Monday 30 November 1874 - Sunday 24 January 1965
Bob Graham
9 quotes about war
American Author, Politician
Born Monday 9 November 1936
Barack Obama
10 quotes about war
American President
Born Friday 4 August 1961
Cindy Sheehan
11 quotes about war
American Activist
Born Wednesday 10 July 1957
John F. Kennedy
9 quotes about war
American President
Tuesday 29 May 1917 - Friday 22 November 1963
Robert M. La Follette
4 quotes about war
American Politician
Wednesday 6 February 1895 - Tuesday 24 February 1953

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning the Cold War or in the 1940s during World War II, the responsible thing to do has been to borrow money to win the war.

Ken Mehlman

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I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

Avril Lavigne

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If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

Robert M. La Follette

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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

Lester B. Pearson

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We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

George Wald

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I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

Jurgen Habermas

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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

Val Kilmer

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I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.

Dennis Kucinich

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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Howard Zinn

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Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

Lyn Nofziger

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Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

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According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

John Doolittle

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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Stephen Ambrose

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'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

Dinesh D'Souza

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My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Georges Clemenceau

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This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

Gordon England

Words: war, terrorists, religion
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But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

Jim Bunning

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Victor Hugo

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Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

Hjalmar Branting

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The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.

Jim Bunning

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