No War Quotes
But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
I became addicted to the movie-going experience in the 1970s, when I attended multiple screenings of films such as 'Chinatown', 'Jaws', 'Star Wars' and the original 'Rocky'.
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.
Canadians want to know that our trade with the United States will continue and that we won't get into any kind of trade war with the United States.
Nobody welcomes a war - not if they're smart. But war finds everyone sooner or later. It's inevitable.
Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.
We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.
Satan is attacking the great institutions of America. This is a spiritual war. I believe in good and evil.
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way in which the poem might move.
Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.
Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.
Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.
General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.
We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
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.
At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew.
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.
Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.
Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.
A too-swift and easy coalition victory may substantially increase the risk of future wars.
When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.
It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.
In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
We were all anti-Reagan, we were all politically-aware, we were all anti-war and things like that. These days a lot of the newer bands don't even really talk about that sort of stuff anymore.
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutiona l wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars.
I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
I once played a sheriff who thought he could do the job without a gun. I was dead in twenty-seven minutes of a thirty minute show.