Quotes About War

Woodrow Wilson tricked the nation into fighting a useless war and then used the war as an excuse for punishing speech critical of his administration with long jail terms. He seized private property without paying for it and even arrested a rival presidential candidate.

Bush was the great "tragedy,"3 but Obama has become the great hypocrite. He took on the mantle of his predecessor's wars and expanded on his powers just as Bush had expanded on Clinton's.

Moreover, he attacked the natural right of people to elect their own government in the same fashion as the predecessor he denounced and claimed further war powers. The Bush-Obama Wars maintained the health of the state in terms of fear and government power, however, Obama would also claim he could wage a geographically unlimited war on terror through the AUMF.

After September 11th, that all changed for the Pentagon and the CIA, and like the render and torture program, something which began under Clinton and expanded under Bush, would exponentially increase in power under the Obama administration.

We must recognize that we do not have a two-party system in this country; we have one party, the big government party. There is a republican version that assaults our civil liberties and loves deficits and war, and a democratic version that assaults our commercial liberty and loves wealth transfers and taxes.

The theory of Woodrow Wilson's era was that the Thirteenth Amendment did not apply to the government and that, when in war, the government could force individuals into the military or into a specific labor market.

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than six people killed every minute, for six long years.

In war, men are nothing, but one man is everything

This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, 'There were more Russians than we had bullets.

because a native-born American was 'a very effeminate thing, very unfit for and very impatient of war'.

El único caso en el que creo ver el dedo de Dios en la historia contemporánea es el de la llegada de Churchill al más alto cargo de la nación en ese preciso momento de 1940».

What is now clear', wrote Leslie Rowan a quarter of a century later, 'is that Greece would not have been a free country had it not been for Churchill's courage and grasp of the essential.

Hitler and his Nazi gang have sown the wind; let them reap the whirlwind.

Pacificism was rife at the time Ã¢â'¬â€œ 11.6 million Britons signed the League of Nations' 'Peace Ballot' in 1934–5 Ã¢â'¬â€œ and it was far easier psychologically for people to portray Churchill as a warmonger

could not accept a position of general responsibility for war policy without an effective share in its guidance and control

Churchill's post-war bodyguard, Ron Golding, who was an RAF squadron leader in 1940, recalled, 'After those speeches, we wanted the Germans to come.

There is a fascinating dichotomy in that, although the appeasement movement was intended to prevent another war breaking out, most of its leaders had not seen action in the Great War, whereas most of the anti-appeasers had.

Paul Nash's 1941 painting The Battle of Britain

His men knew they could trust him not to be officious over such an unfortunate (though by no means isolated) friendly-fire incident, and to tell the dead Guardsman's family that he had died heroically. Sometimes in war, as he was to say later, the truth has to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.

The Daily Express declares that Britain will not be involved in a European war this year, or next year either'.

That's war: very high in the morning and very low in the evening: from triumph to failure is only one step.

Winston Churchill once observed that in wartime, truth is so precious that she needs to be defended by a bodyguard of lies.)

It was the Russians who provided the oceans of blood necessary to defeat Germany, and it cannot be reiterated enough that out of every five Germans killed in combat – that is, on the battlefield rather than in aerial bombing or through other means – four died on the Eastern Front.