Quotes About Conflict

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

In war and policy one should always try to put oneself in the position of what Bismarck called "the Other Man". The more fully and sympathetically a Minister can do this the better are his chances of being right. The more knowledge he possesses of the opposite point of view, the less puzzling it is to know what to do. But imagination without deep and full knowledge is a snare

The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.

When York's son, hitherto Earl of March, learned that his father's cause had devolved upon him he did not shrink. He fell upon the Earl of Wiltshire and the Welsh Lancastrians, and on February 2, 1461, at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford, he beat and broke

when the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Very soon they will have to choose on the one hand between economic and financial collapse or internal upheaval, and on the other a war which could have no other object

In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. "Mr. President, what's this about Japan?" "It's quite true," he replied. "They have attacked us at Pearl Harbour. We are all in the same boat now.

Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

Thereafter mighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast—Corporal Hitler.

In the first three months of actual fighting from the last week in August to the end of November, when the German drive against the Channel ports had come to an end and the first great invasion was definitely arrested, the French lost in killed, prisoners and wounded 854,0001 men. In

Gandhi... ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back. Gandhi-ism and everything it stands for will have to be grappled with and crushed.

The grass soon grows over a battlefield but never over a scaffold.

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

Silence is the secret of war.' —PRIOR

In total war it is quite impossible to draw any precise line between military and non-military problems.

The drastic application of economic sanctions in July 1941 brought to a head the internal crisis in Japanese politics.

Lo que hemos ganado por las armas en medio año —dijo Moltke— debemos protegerlo con las armas por medio siglo, si queremos que no nos lo vuelvan a arrebatar».

As Lord Kitchener observed after one heart-shaking discussion: 'We cannot make war as we ought; we can only make it as we can.

The crimes of the vanquished find their background and their explanation, though not, of course, their pardon, in the follies of the victors. Without these follies crime would have found neither temptation nor opportunity.

the Battle of Alamein, called Desert Victory.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders

In the twelve months from June, 1940, to June, 1941, our civilian casualties were 43,381 killed and 50,856 seriously injured, a total of 94,237. Except for

Those that had done the least in the conflict were as might be expected the foremost in detailing the penalties of the vanquished.