War Quotes
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
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I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.
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When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.
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My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
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There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
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Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?
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Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'
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And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
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I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
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The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
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War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.
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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.
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In war, it feels like everything you're doing is more important because you're in the proximity of violence and death, and that proximity changes your relationship to America because it changes the way you see the world.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.
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The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.
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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
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To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.
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One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.
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The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
