War Quotes
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While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.
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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.
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I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
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Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked
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O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
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I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
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The idea that I'm 45 doesn't mean that I have no creativity. I'm like a student: it's the same - it's not a war!
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In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. Another short film I did was silent. What I'm trying to say is that, yes, I'm Italian, and yes, I make films with Italian money, but personally, I've always been invested in the broader world of film-making.
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To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.
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Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defence of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple.
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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.
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To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.
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Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
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I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.
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The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
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If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?
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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.
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In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war.
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To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.
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Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,' ... 'we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.
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It was just after the war. There was nothing left in Warsaw for me. He and his brother were coming to Krakow to make a fresh start. And he loved me so. He would have done anything for me.
