Top 1200 War Veteran Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

My strength is looking for composition and light, and I think those things come in the quieter times of war or photographing people affected on the margins of war - civilians, refugees; that is where I really excel.

Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.

Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.

I've done quite a few gigs for the military. Some of them had to be kept under the wire. I'm a three year Army veteran myself, and I'm always available to do stuff like that. I've even done some things for the British military, too.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.

It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'.

And do you know what a full-fledged war would look like, Percy?" "Bad?" I guessed. "Imagine the world in chaos. Nature at war with itself. Olympians forced to choose sides between Zeus amd Poseidon. Destruction. Carnage. Millions dead. Western civilization turned into a battleground so big it will make the Trojan War look like a water-balloon fight." "Bad," I repeated.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys and say, if you want a presidential nominee who will do what the Bushes did, go from war to war, look elsewhere.

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.

I firmly believe that nuclear war is absolutely impossible. I don't think anyone in the world wants a nuclear war - not even the Russians.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

When you make a war movie, the other side has to be the enemy. You're making a war movie from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

It said, 'War Is Not the Answer.' I disagree. I think war absolutely is the answer. And if you don't agree with me, happy Fourth of July.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we could have resolved this conflict and disarmed Saddam Hussein without war. However, this was not the case.

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

I grew up in southwest Iowa, on a farm north of Stanton, Iowa, which is a tiny little town, a farming community. I went to Iowa State University and joined Army ROTC while I was there and just have had such a phenomenal life. I am a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

As we head to war with Iraq, President Bush wants to make one thing clear: This war is not about oil. It's about gasoline.

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

The important thing is Burma needs to end the civil war and for this to happen both sides must want to end the war.

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.