War Quotes
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[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where civilization focuses its attention, I mean, that's what defines what the civilization cares about.
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But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
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Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.
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If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.
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Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
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If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
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Our countries have been friends dating to the very existence of the United States. France is the only power that has never been at war with the United States.
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Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
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The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
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War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.
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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.
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'It's gonna be just like war!' an editor exults. 'That's it! War! You put that in the lead.
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The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.
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The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
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My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.
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War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
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My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.
