Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Greeley

Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris.

Andrew Jackson

...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms...

Andrew Jackson

Their object is disunion.

Andrew Jackson

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

Andrew Jackson

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Amy Schumer

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

Ami Ayalon

We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.

Aminatta Forna

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

Amity Shlaes

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

Amitabh Bachchan

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Amiri Baraka

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Amish Tripathi

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

Anson Mount

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Andy Rooney

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Andy Rooney

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

Andy Rooney

I did not believe in the war. I thought it was wrong to go into any war. And I got to the war, and saw the Germans, and I changed my mind. I decided we were right going into World War II.

Andy Warhol

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Dennis Thompson

He was a warrior out there for us.

Andy Reid

He just battled through it like the warrior that he is,

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Marianne Williamson

War is just an effect, not a cause.

Dogen

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Dogen

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Bill Shuster

We shouldn't have politicians micromanaging this war because it is complex and unconventional.

Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms....

George A. Smith

We see this as a war for our heritage.

Alan Furst

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

Joshua Chamberlain

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.