Quotes About Warfare

for they regarded travel as a species of warfare, only to be undertaken by those who have been fully armed at the Haymarket Stores.

Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag… But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches… He was doing what he'd been trained to do… and he was highly trained.

Glory always has a price, and that cost is almost always paid in copiously spilled blood.

The engineers wanted us to be able to blow the booby traps we found so others wouldn't get killed. Some guys really got off working with explosives. I mean, their eyes lit up, and they got all happy. It did weird things to people. It was interesting as hell to me, but I knew how dangerous that shit was.

In the annals of time, how many people had walked our earth as a sniper?

As I turned to the chapters dedicated to operations in North Vietnam, the ridiculous gave way to the absurd. I couldn't discern whether the enemy was the North Vietnamese or the U.S. Navy. The enemy might just as easily have been the State Department or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all seemed to have a voice in the ROE, and the tone of the voice was seldom in favor of winning the war, defeating the enemy, or even ensuring the fighter pilot's chances of survival.

Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.

Back of every soldier is a woman.

A rapacious and licentious soldiery.

Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.

Oh, it's hi-hi-yee! for the field artilleree,Shout out your numbers loud and strong,And where'er we go, you will always knowThat those caissons are rolling along.

Cuando no se deja espacio a la inteligencia, nomás se escucha el estruendo de los cañones y el crepitar de la fusilería.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules;Of Hector, and Lysander, and such great names as these;But of all the world's brave heroes, there's none that can compareWith a tow, row, row, row, row, row for the British Grenadier.

There is no discharge in that war.

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours…. The smell, you know that gasoline smell. Smelled like victory.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

With drums and guns, and guns and drumsThe enemy nearly slew ye.My darling dear, you look so queer,Oh, Johnny, I hardly knew ye.

Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle.

The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

From the halls of Montezuma,To the shores of Tripoli,We fight our country's battlesOn the land as on the sea.