Quotes about war
war army america
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war. George S. Patton
war helping god-help-me
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
war blow ignorant
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.
war soldier battle
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
war use audacity
In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
war 4th-of-july patriotic
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
war fighting battle
Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
war simple ruthless
War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
war soul defense
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
war tired enemy
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
war army winning
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
war reading writing
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us. George Saunders
war guy slaughterhouse-five
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
war writing madden
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. Jeffrey Archer
war enemy felons
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging. Jefferson Davis
war praying excuse
Pray excuse me. I cannot take it.
war forever unions
A restitution of the Union has been rendered forever impossible.
war lying past
The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.
war history misfortunes
The authors of all our misfortune.
war army history
Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
war pride men
If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen....
war loss government
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.
war army virginia
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.
war views political
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.
war night years
I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
war smell southern
The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.
war sadness inheritance
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.
war fall fighting
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.
war fighting night
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.
war men lines
With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly. Jeff Miller
war president want
You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have
war blood littles
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled? Jean Racine
war men ideas
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man. Jean-Luc Godard