War Quotes
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
Walter Gropius
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..war in itself is one of the manifestations of life, like disease, love, and lust. And just as I follow fear, disease, lust, love, and hate to their utmost limits, well, now I am trying war. It is all life, wonderfully various and rich in inspiration.
Max Beckmann
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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.
Colin Powell
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They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.
Patty Hearst
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
Oriana Fallaci
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The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
Mark Kirk
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The way that Trump spoke about the outside world was the most aggressive, most hyper-nationalist, and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address I think since the Second World War.
Charles Krauthammer
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For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
David Broder
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I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.
Bobbie Ann Mason
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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
David Bailey
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
Dave Brubeck
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Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.
Leonard Peikoff
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I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.
Jim Webb
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In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln
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Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.
Billy Rose
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I think doing anything having to do with war, you walk away so very grateful for everything you have and the safety that you have.
Angelina Jolie
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
Gary Bauer
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To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein
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It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
Bernie Sanders
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To make a war, sometimes it is necessary that everyone guess wrong.
T. R. Fehrenbach
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I was a war correspondent. I've watched great people crumble under pressure and make bad decisions.
Peter Landesman