Quotes about war
war mean israel
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Yasser Arafat
war ideas people
Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. Wojciech Jaruzelski
war three avant-garde
There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered. Witold Gombrowicz
war tidy
After every war someone has to tidy up. Wislawa Szymborska
war winning men
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. Winston Churchill
war blood sweat
"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."
war world sides
Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.
war mistake effort
We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.
war world may
If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.
war world malta
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.
war men victory
He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.
war cat water-bottles
The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
war fighting men
Old men make war, young men fight and die
war useless planning
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
war years mind
[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
war dark age
This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.
war night race
I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.
war believe government
I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.
war night joy
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918....
war differences indifference
Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others. Willy Brandt
war opportunity being-thankful
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.
war ifs
I have brought you to the revel, now dance if you can! William Wallace
war america waiting
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it. Will Rogers
war soldier want
You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.
war pestilence helping
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.
war united-states lost
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
war two giving
I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.
war home killing
You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.
war real people
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.
war believe home
I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Ive every said, and I used it in the FOLLIES of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we cant confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.
war old-friends soldier
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
war believe germany
The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes. They speak of it almost like a national calamity. I really believe if it come to a vote whether to go to war with England, France and Germany combined, or raise the rate on incomes of over $100,000, they would vote war.
war two cooking
When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.