War Quotes
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We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.
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Less than 1 percent of American have served in 12 years of war, and serious public conversation about military policy is sorely lacking.
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Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
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Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
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The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
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Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?
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That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.
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When WWII ended, the Cold War started, and the interest of the Western world was not to completely break Germany. So all those Nazis who had been controlling the country now had the power to rebuild it. I think there were many of them who just continued their life in society; it's a very known fact.
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Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.
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As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
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I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
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I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.
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Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.
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If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
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The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.
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In view of history, I sincerely wish that the ravages of war will never be repeated.