“I hope my own children never have to fight a war.”– George H. W. Bush Related Quotes “In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”– Leo Tolstoy “American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”– Katherine Dunn “The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.”– George W. Bush