Quotes about war
war mistake dreamer
The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history-the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen Robert Greene
war past battle
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
war old-friends together
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death Robert Asprin
war civilization dawn
War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war. Robert Aumann
war believe mean
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible. Robert Anton Wilson
war spine overrated
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
war kids emotional
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war. Richard Louv
war giving together
We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over. Richard M. Nixon
war sacrifice korea
What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.
war vietnam force
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
war college phds
Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
war character adversity
The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace.
war believe boys
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
war thinking history
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
war doubt lasts
I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
war home sight
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.
war police ems
I want to be sure...that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood?...Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing?...Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.
war successful blessing
The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings.
war two government
[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.
war vietnam world
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
war thinking giving
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
war democracy world
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
war west losing
The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.
war white house
There can be no whitewash at the White House.
war planning spontaneous
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
war president vietnam
I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
war sleep fighting
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
war people long
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
war media people
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
war wish done
Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
war hypocrite reality
This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.
war iraq america
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere. Richard Schiff
war government moral
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade. Richard Rorty