Jacqueline Winspear Quotes

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

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.

Never think that war is a good thing, grandchildren. Though it may be necessary at times to defend our people, war is a sickness that must be cured. War is a time out of balance. When it is truly over, we must work to restore peace and sacred harmony once again.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.