Quotes about war
war men age
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. George Will
war mean liberty
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
war responsibility government
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.
war mountain sides
On the other side of every mountain was another mountain. George Russell
war army winning
Never in history has the navy landed an army at the planned time and place. But if you land us anywhere within 50 miles of Fedela and within 1 week of D-Day. I'll go ahead and win. George S. Patton
war home world
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.
war military men
Many, who should know better, think that wars can be decided by soulless machines, rather than by the blood and anguish of brave men.
war ghetto marine
We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
war army winning
Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.
war people remember
Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.
war winning men
Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
war home army
Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.
war simple men
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
war military ideas
Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.
war golden golden-rule
Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.
war military bottom
Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
war military artillery
I do not have to tell you who won the war. You know, the artillery did.
war rip blood
War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.
war army america
America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
war helping god-help-me
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
war blow ignorant
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest.
war soldier battle
There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.
war use audacity
In war nothing is impossible, provided you use audacity.
war 4th-of-july patriotic
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
war fighting battle
Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles
war simple ruthless
War is simple, direct, and ruthless.
war soul defense
In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.
war tired enemy
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
war army winning
Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.
war reading writing
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right - [Abraham] Lincoln was killed, Reconstruction came along, and all of that inequity was frozen in place and carried forward rather smugly. So I think the burden is now upon us white people, to say that this systemic inequality offends us. George Saunders
war guy slaughterhouse-five
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
war writing madden
War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. Jeffrey Archer
war enemy felons
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging. Jefferson Davis