Elmer Davis Quotes

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

I could have been very popular if I had launched a military attack on Iran but I chose patience.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

Countries, not just their armies, win wars.

The Cold War, Bosnia and Ukraine remind us that peace is fragile. Iraq and Syria remind us that no society or culture is immune from conflict.

I think that the decision to go to war in Iraq was a mistake.

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

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.