Quotes: War

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.

Our Cuba policy didn’t make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

We’re going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now – it’s almost an ultimate in absurdity.

If a war be undertaken… before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, ‘I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.’