Quotes About War

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

We shall meet again. I have believed in God. I obeyed the laws of war and was loyal to my flag.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.

In war films, even more than in other kinds of documentary, we've come to think that shaky, poor-quality footage is somehow more authentic than something classically 'well shot.'

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

If al-Qaeda had not had a home in Afghanistan, maybe 9/11 would never have taken place. God forbid if al-Qaeda gets another strong foothold in Afghanistan.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

Sen. Akaka never forgot the cost of war on our country.

War may make us great, but let it never be forgotten that peace only can make us both great and free.

There was so little said about the Burmese war. The Forgotten 14th, they called them.

We were taught fortitude by our parents, who had gone through the war. Being a child then was fun. We could go out and play in the street - there were few cars - and we felt very safe.

Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongside. We bled alongside each other; we mourned together. When I came home, these weren't people I could keep up with on Facebook.

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

I'd never say I wouldn't fight a war. In different ages, I would have done. I'd have fought the Vikings.

Because we have more women in power now, frankly we are less likely to go to war. It's not in our nature really.

I think that my parents wanted my brother and I to do what they couldn't have done and live a free life and not worry about war.

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms.