War Quotes
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
Ibrahim Rugova
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
Jack Scalia
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
Warren Christopher
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Adam Hochschild
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Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.
Oriana Fallaci
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram
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When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.
Asma Jahangir
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People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
Ian K. Smith
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
Randy Neugebauer
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
J. D. Hayworth
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.
Kenneth Clarke
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There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue.
Jack Straw
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. James
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If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.
Albert Einstein
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
Jeannette Rankin
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South Korea first allowed women into the military in 1950 during the Korean War. Back then, female soldiers mainly held administrative and support positions. Women began to take on combat roles in the 1990s when the three military academies, exclusive to men, began accepting women.
Kim Young-ha
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When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.
Gene Luen Yang
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If you know even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution - the 'justice' of exchanging one damage for another.
Wendell Berry
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
Larry MacPhail
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If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
Samantha Smith