Quotes about war
war valuable reports
It is always more valuable to report the truth. Jean-Paul Sartre
war trusted
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war. Georges Clemenceau
war serious
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
war plus easier
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
war winner disaster
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
war military army
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
war party rights
On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
war fighting sea
The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.
war home foreign-policy
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
war people famous-last-words
Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing. Georges Danton
warrior self interest
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille
war rust total-war
I would rather wear out than rust out. George Whitefield
war rupture cymbals
Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions. George Will
war fate choices
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.
war 4th-of-july blessing
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
war men age
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
war mean liberty
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
war responsibility government
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.
war mountain sides
On the other side of every mountain was another mountain. George Russell
war army winning
Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win. George S. Patton
war home world
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
war military men
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
war ghetto marine
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
war army winning
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
war people remember
Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.
war winning men
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
war home army
Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.
war simple men
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
war military ideas
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
war golden golden-rule
Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.
war military bottom
Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
war military artillery
I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
war rip blood
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.