From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.
— William Henry Ashley
If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
— William Halsey
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
— William Golding
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
— William Gilbert
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
— William C. Kirby
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
— William Beveridge
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
— Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
The war against Islamic extremism will be long. They are in it for the long haul, which means that we have to be also.
— Will Hurd
Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
— Will Ferrell
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.
— Wilhelm Keitel
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
— Wilfred Owen
We're in a trade war. We've been in a trade war for decades. That's why we have the deficit.
— Wilbur Ross
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
— Whittaker Chambers
I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.
— Werner Herzog
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
— William Kunstler
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.
— William Hague
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
— William Falconer
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
The consensus for a strong, independent Executive arose from the Framers' experience in the Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation. They had seen that the War had almost been lost and was a bumbling enterprise because of the lack of strong Executive leadership.
— William Barr
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
The war against radical Salafi-Jihadism has been going on for several decades already and it will span many more and the U.S. must be preparing mentally for it.
Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.
— Will Durst
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
— Wilfred Burchett
During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.
— Wil S. Hylton
Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.
— Whit Stillman
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.
— Werner Heisenberg
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.
— William J. Perry
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
— William Hazlitt
The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
— William H. Seward
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
— William Glasser
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
— William Adams
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
— will.i.am
ISIS takes a long-term approach to its apocalyptic war with West - we have to do the same.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
— Will Durant
This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.
— Wild Bill Hickok
Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.
— Wesley Clark
