Quotes about war
war doors gathering
Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow. Robert E. Lee
war years government
The questions which for years were in dispute between the State and General Government, and which unhappily were not decided by the dictates of reason, but referred to the decision of war, having been decided against us, it is the part of wisdom to acquiesce in the result, and of candor to recognize the fact.
war civil-war young
It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.
war civil-war faults
All this has been my fault.
war slavery engaging
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.
war family-and-friends separation
But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
war civil-war deny
Teach him to deny himself.
war humanity usage
I have never witnessed on any previous occasion such entire disregard of the usage of civilized warfare and the dictates of humanity.
war moving army
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
war mistake patriotic
I don't think it was a patriotic war. I think it was a mistake, a strategic mistake, and I think that the president of the United States wasn't patriotic in going after Saddam Hussein. He simply misled America and cost us casualties and killed and injured America's reputation around the world without valid reason for doing so. It's not patriotic; it's wrong. Wesley Clark
war hatred use
War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
war serious claims
Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
war blood people
Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people? Wally Herger
war hero hunting
I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him. Wally Schirra
war enemy mets
We have met the enemy and he is us. Walt Kelly
war people citizens
Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people. Vito Fossella
war ill-will two
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense. Washington Irving
war enemy principles
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
war views years
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. Walter Kohn
war tests life-is
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it. Walter Lippmann
war army blood
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
war europe russia
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
war mind rules-and-regulations
The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his mind on the mystery off there, but cannot quite manage to keep awake. He knows he is somehow affected by what is going on. Rules and regulations continually, taxes annually and wars occasionally remind him that he is being swept along by great drifts of circumstance. Yet these public affairs are in no convincing way his affairs. They are for the most part invisible. They are managed, if they are managed at all, at distant centers, from behind the scenes, by unnamed powers.
war sacrifice speech
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
war purpose plans
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
war men thinking
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
war cynical humanity
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.
war mind village
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village. Voltaire
war mean cutting
Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.
war philosopher oppressed
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
war slavery human-nature
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
war army states
Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
war color justice
War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.