Top 1200 World War Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

Political analysts say that President Bush's re-election strategy is to try and convince Americans that he's a war president. I don't get that, do you think that'll work? I mean, don't you think that if he tries to convince the American people that we need a war president, isn't he afraid that they're going to vote for the guy that was actually in a war?

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they form the more constant factors, changing only in degree, whereas the physical factors are different in almost every war and every military situation.

If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused.

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.

Did you know that the original title for War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For?

The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand...Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion?

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

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

When I turn the thought around - the thought that war, let's say war in Iraq, should stop - the turnaround is the war in myself should stop.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like they are proud of something you know it brought people back together and you know now we can keep our heads up again.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

We must not bring one war to an end, or thirty; but the idea of war itself.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

Libya, more than anyone else's war, was Hillary Clinton's war.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept. There was a naivety and stupidity that war would be a great lark. It's not that different from Gone With The Wind, where all the young men can't wait to go off to fight and then two hours later in the movie, we see how the reality of that has come home to them.

Our military superiority is so great - it's far greater than it was in the Gulf War, and the Gulf War was over in 100 hours after we bombed for 43 days. And so now they can bomb for a couple of days and then just roll into Baghdad... The odds are there's going to be a war and it's going to be not for very long.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.

Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

Vote for war allowed war only after all else failed.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.