Quotes About Conflict

if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.

They fight and kill each other. Instead of respecting another man's way, they stop at nothing to get him to adopt their way. Like the Mormons." The

the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. "They

1832: The Illinois militia effectively ended the Black Hawk War with the massacre of Black Hawk's tribe, including women, children, and old men.

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.

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

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

The government had to choose between shame and war. They have chosen shame, and now they will get war.

There were a million British casualties in the first three months of the war.)

The Midway battle was crucial. In exchange for 307 lives, the Yorktown and a destroyer, and 147 airplanes, the American fleet had destroyed four Japanese carriers, more than three hundred planes, a cruiser and a destroyer, and nearly five thousand Japanese sailors and airmen. It has been called, with justification, "the turning point" in the Pacific war.