Richard Nixon Quotes

We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

War would end if the dead could return.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.

Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men in foreign lands have never been presented. They bow their knees and say they are 'miserable sinners,' and their hearts rankle with abominable pride. Poor infatuated fools! Their servility is real and their insolence is real but their king is a phantom and their palace is a dream.

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

When adults wage war, children perish.

The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

One would think that man would run out of wars.

Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

I make war on the living, not the dead.

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.