War Quotes
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
Donald Rumsfeld
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
A. A. Milne
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I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.
David Morrell
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If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.
Jean Giraudoux
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
Victor Davis Hanson
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We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
John Perkins
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I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
Barney Ross
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In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
John Moody
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Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
Karl Liebknecht
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We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.
Earl Blumenauer
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
Karl Marlantes
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
LeVar Burton
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We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off - what - twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
Curtis LeMay
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War is horrible because it strangles youth.
Philip Kearny
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Here is Russia, blatantly threatening a neighboring state with war if it seeks to pursue an independent foreign policy, yet we are so habituated to Russian flouting of international law that we barely notice any more.
Daniel Hannan
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An oft-repeated anecdote is that which relates of an army officer, somewhat of a hero-worshiper, who, upon meeting Carson, exclaimed, effusively: 'So this is the great Kit Carson, who has made so many Indians run!' 'Yes,' drawled Carson, 'sometimes I run after them but most times they war runnin' after me.'
Kit Carson
