Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Neil Smith

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

L. Neil Smith

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

Thanks to guys like Boss Tweed, famous for saying, 'I don't give a damn who does the voting, as long as I do the nominating,' there hasn't been an honest election in the USA since sometime around the War Between the States.

L. Neil Smith

Government is waging war against the people.

P. J. O'Rourke

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

Pablo Picasso

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

Pablo Picasso

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Paul Johnson

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

Paul Johnson

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents...

Paul Johnson

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

Paul Cellucci

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Paul Cellucci

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

Paul Cellucci

But Canada remains a crucial partner in this global war on terrorism, and we are grateful for that. Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and military personnel continue anti-terrorist operations in the Persian Gulf.

Paul Cellucci

Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.

Patricia Schroeder

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

Oscar Wilde

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Madonna Ciccone

Love´s nothing else than a war in which both are the winners.

Mac Thornberry

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

Mac Thornberry

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

Lyman Abbott

Commerce is a form of warfare.

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

Lucretia Mott

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

Lucinda Williams

What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

Lucretius

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

For the poor of this world, two major ways of expiring are available: either by the absolute indifference of your fellow-men in peace-time, or by the homicidal passion of these same when war breaks out.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

Louis L'Amour

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

Louis L'Amour

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

Louis Farrakhan

If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.