War Quotes
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My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.
William C. Oates -
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
Roger Daltrey The Who
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You can't beat your enemy anymore through wars; instead you create an entire generation of people revenge-seeking. [...] Our opponents are going to resort to car bombs and suicide attacks because they have no other way to win. I believe (Rumsfeld) thinks this is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore. We can't beat anyone anymore.
George Clooney -
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of the war may depend on its outcome.
Adolf Hitler -
Ez fer war, I call it murder-There you hev it plain an' flat;I don't want to go no furderThan my Testyment fer that.
James Russell Lowell -
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
Tom Hayden -
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
All wars will be settled by sea power.
Erich Raeder
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How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
Gerald Scarfe -
The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.
Eustace Mullins -
War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine.
Eric Pianka -
Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.
Homer -
Now therefore, be it Resolved by the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty of the United States of America in favor of a world government.
Patrick Henry -
We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again.
Al Murray
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I made a mistake. I underestimated the influence of Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and the rest of the neocons; I vastly underestimated their disingenuousness and incompetence. So George W. Bush went to war again, and just the way the neocons wanted him to- without significant international backing.
Joe Biden -
War is the father of all things.
Heraclitus -
I will share a personal experience: my father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir during the Kargil war. I remember my mom sitting in front of television throughout the day reading tickers which had name of the martyrs.
Anushka Sharma -
And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
Ernest Hemingway -
There are only two forces that can withstand the force of the war's spirit when it seizes upon the world. The one is the force of an independently thinking, free, and articulate democracy. The other is the force of an instructed and enlightened public opinion.
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence -
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
Alan Furst
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Virginia Woolf -
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
Phil Klay -
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?
Drew Carey