Quotes About War

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

My God, war is not about bathrooms. War is not about political correctness or words that are meaningless. War is about winning.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

Embarking upon war is always dangerous for national leaders because it makes them more than ever at the mercy of events. When domestic opinion is acutely divided, however, war can be politically lethal for its makers.

There is no such thing as a politically correct war.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

There is no war between Muslims and Americans. There is no war between Americans and the poor people in the world. There is only a war between people on the top who have their own agenda.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the war.

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.