Eddie Bernice Johnson Quotes

There are bad people all over the place, and we really can't have a war each time just to get rid of one of these bad people.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We do not kill an Iraqi.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We believe in peace, but we are not pacifists. Sometimes we have to use force

International law seeks to avoid the use of force but does not preclude it.

Art and religion would not be able to stop war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

There is no such thing as a politically correct 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.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

I think war should be illegal.

You don't kill your way to peace.

What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war?

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.