Quotes About Conflict

unfortunately we have to make war as we must and not as we should like to.

If countries remote from a dispute were among those called upon in the first instance to achieve a settlement the result was likely to be merely vapid and academic discussion.

There is great danger in trying to have things both ways.

No war is so sanguinary as the war of exhaustion.

if only the Generals had not been content to fight machine-gun bullets with the breasts of gallant men, and think that that was waging war.

The British people do not, as is sometimes thought, go to war for calculation, but for sentiment

If you are a great general,' said Pompaedius Silo to Marius, 'come down and fight.' 'If you are a great general,' was the famous answer, 'make me fight against my will.

Two things stop the offensive movements of armies: (a) Bullets and fragments of shell which destroy the motive power of men, and (b) The confusion of the conflict.

los comunistas, luchando contra los nazis en las calles y contra el gobierno por medio de huelgas, contribuyeron a hacerle imposible gobernar.

At the summit the stamina and valour of our fighter pilots remained unconquerable and supreme. Thus Britain was saved. Well might I say in the House of Commons: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

In war what you don't dislike is not usually what the enemy does.

los grandes antagonismos se manifiestan en detalles pequeños.

Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.

We are now somewhat readily accepting the proposition that high-explosive shells used in unprecedented and extraordinary quantities will achieve decisive results.

Sin embargo, una guerra aplazada puede ser una guerra evitada.

By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite.

The growth of the great antagonisms abroad was accompanied by the progressive aggravation of party strife at home.

En el Pacífico, había solo cinco estaciones inalámbricas alemanas: Yap, Apia, Nauru, Rabaul y Anguar; estas estaciones fueron destruidas antes de dos meses, a contar desde el principio de la contienda. Después de esto, solo quedaron las estaciones de T. S. H. de a bordo, con las que era muy peligroso lanzar una sola palabra en el espacio.

did not overlook the broad principle that in war as in life everything is relative.

at a touch of external difficulties or menace all these fierce internal controversies would disappear for the time being, and we should be brought into line and into tune. But why is it that men are so constituted that they can only lay aside their own domestic quarrels under the impulse of what I will call a higher principle of hatred?…

Quit murdering and start arguing.

All's quiet along the Potomac to-night Except now and then a stray picket Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

lines from Byron's Childe Harold: Here, where the sword United Nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day! And this is much—and all—which will not pass away.

Great quarrels, it has been well said, arise from small occasions but seldom from small causes.