Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jessica Brown Findlay

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Jesse Ventura

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

Jesse Ventura

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

Jesse Ventura

If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.

Jesse Ventura

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Jesse Ventura

Post-traumatic stress, that's why the soldiers need marijuana, is for their mental health. It makes them feel better so that they don't have the horrors of war in their mind all the time. And the government won't allow them to have it, because it's illegal - federally. It's absurd.

Jesse Ventura

If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you would see an end to a lot of the shooting violence that's going on when people are being pulled over for traffic stops and then suddenly executed right in the street.

Jesse Ventura

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

Jesse Ventura

Going to war is an easy decision.

Jesse Ventura

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Jesse Ventura

I can unequivocally tell you I would not have sent my kid to the Iraq war.

Jesse Ventura

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

Jesse Ventura

That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.

Jesse Ventura

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

Jerry Nachman

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

H. G. Wells

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

H. G. Wells

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

H. G. Wells

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

H. G. Wells

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs...

H. G. Wells

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

H. G. Wells

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

H. G. Wells

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

H. G. Wells

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

H. G. Wells

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

George Herbert

When war begins, then hell openeth.

George Herbert

Advise none to marry or go to war.

Jean Baudrillard

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Jayne Mansfield

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

Jay Rockefeller

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.

Jay Sekulow

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

Jay Mohr

I don't know if you've ever been to England, but as soon as they find out you're from America, they hate you. They just think they're more sophisticated than we are. They're so pissed at us. You know what it is? They're mad because they lost the Revolutionary War, and they should be because there was only like nine of us.

Jay Leno

The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.