War Quotes
-
The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
-
The War is not over and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost. But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.
-
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
-
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
-
When you smoke ganja you don't want to war.
-
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
-
A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.
-
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
-
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
-
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
-
Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.
-
It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.
-
I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.
-
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
-
We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
-
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
-
Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.
-
'When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.'
-
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
-
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
-
When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
-
Der Verstand und das Herz stehen auf sehr gutem Fuße. Eines vertritt oft die Stelle des andern so vollkommen, dass es schwer ist zu entscheiden, welches von beiden tätig war.
-
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
-
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
