Quotes about war
warrior fighting spite
The true warrior isn't immune to fear. She fights in spite of it. Francesca Lia Block
war moments illusion
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living.
war book school
...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey. Fran Lebowitz
war successful fighting
The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.
war believe people
If people had gavels, there would be no wars. If every person in the world had a gavel and could bang it and get everyone's attention right away and make their displeasure known, I believe the level of actual violence in the world would just disappear to practically nothing.
war years bosnia
It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.
war crime invention
The concept of war crimes is an American invention. George Wald
war world defense
We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.
war interesting vietnam
We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
war self nuclear
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
war sides defense
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
war hiroshima-and-nagasaki bombs
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
war character self
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. George Washington
war moments danger
[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
war military movement
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
war 4th-of-july enemy
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
war simple justice
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
war mind good-mind
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
war government citizens
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
war mean patriotic
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
war government-debt owing-a-debt
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
war desire defense
If we desire to secure peace...it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
war president
In time of peace, prepare for war.
war mean evil
We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude
war mean army
The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects, of all officers, and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence.
war agriculture humanity
For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.
war patriotic men
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.
war enemy produce
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
war mean interesting
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
war army fighting
An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century. George W. Bush
war enemy important
It's important to listen to the words of the enemy if you're in war.
war america people
I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.
war iraq use
In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.