Moral War Quotes

I was a liberal Republican growing up in New Jersey. That doesn't exist anymore. If you're a Republican, you have to think that tax cuts for the rich are awesome, torture is awesome, moral war is awesome.

If to preserve political independence and civil freedom to nations was a just ground of war, a war to preserve national independence, property, liberty, life, and honor from certain universal havoc is a war just, necessary, manly, pious; and we are bound to persevere in it by every principle, divine and human, as long as the system which menaces them all, and all equally, has an existence in the world.

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

It is the good war that hallows every cause.

… the moral equivalent of war

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.

When a soldier goes to war he has to have a moral justification for killing the other side.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war.

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.