War Quotes
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Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
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Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.
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Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.
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To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous.
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We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.
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Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.
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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
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The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.
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The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.
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When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!
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No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.
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Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
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War begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
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In fact, my mom would have gone to the Persian Gulf War had she not been pregnant with me.
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There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
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Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'
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If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.
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I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.
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I'm in a war, a cultural war.
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I am against all war.
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There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
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It is the cry of the separate self, ‘What about me?’ As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn’t matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.
