War Quotes
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.
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War settles nothing.
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The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrung from its hostile and unwilling serfs.
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If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
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On Putin's order, Russia intervenes in Syria not to fight terrorists but to abet the war crimes of the Assad regime. Russian bombers deliberately target aid workers and hospitals. They threaten Syrian freedom fighters trained by the U.S. They are allied with our enemies in the Middle East and trying to weaken our friendships there.
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How many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
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The decision to go to war is the most important decision that I can make as a representative in Congress. As a veteran, I see any potential military action first through the eyes of the young men and women who volunteered to wear the uniform and would carry out such a mission.
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.
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It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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The Edmund Pettus Bridge - which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark - isn't symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
