Violence/war

Famous quotes containing the words violence and/or war:

“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)

“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)