No War Quotes
Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.
Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
One might have thought that the Cold War's conclusion would have convinced the Left that appeasement of dictators is not profitable.
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.
In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen
We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war.
It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.
Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.
A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.
I want Cuba . . . I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican States; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery.
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.
I met soldiers coming back from war and I was impressed by their description of PTSD, all the symptoms: the outburst of violence, the impossibility to cope with reality anymore, all that stuff.
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.
The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.