War Quotes
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.
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We are perceived as a nation at war with Muslims. This debilitating and dangerous perception must be reversed.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
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The American people deserve answers about Benghazi before we move forward with military involvement in Syria's civil war.
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There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
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You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
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The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
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When the Lebanese Civil War started in 1975, I was 15. I was shipped to boarding school in England and, after that, to UCLA.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
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As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
