Voltaire Quotes

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

I want you all to understand that we are at war and we will stay as war until this is done. Nothing else matters. Everything is available for the pursuit of this war. Any barriers in your way, they’re gone. Any money you need, you have it. This is our only agenda.

I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

People like to talk about war.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Every nation prepares, through its government, to equip itself with the power to hurl death upon its fellow-nations. No people seeks that power; it is governments that seek it.

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will.... I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

When the days of rejoicing are over,/ When the flags are stowed safely away,/ They will dream of another wild 'War to End Wars'/ And another wild Armistice day.

To march over dead men, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.