Quotes About War

Thus, more of the ordinary person's money got syphoned off into the Exchequer, where it largely financed war and paid the interest due to wealthy investors in the National Debt.

Los claros clarines de pronto levantan sus sones, su canto sonoro, su cálido coro, que envuelve en su trueno de oro la augusta soberbia de los pabellones. Él dice la lucha, la herida venganza, las ásperas crines, los rudos penachos, la pica, la lanza, la sangre que riega de heroicos carmines la tierra; de negros mastines que azuza la muerte, que rige la guerra.

Las bellas mujeres aprestan coronas de flores, y bajo los pórticos vense sus rostros de rosa; y la más hermosa sonríe al más fiero de los vencedores. ¡Honor al que trae cautiva la extraña bandera; honor al herido y honor a los fieles soldados que muerte encontraron por mano extranjera!

Verdugos de ideales afligieron la tierra, En un pozo de sombra la humanidad se encierra Con los rudos molosos del odio y de la guerra.

Fue Himmler, y sólo él, quien durante el curso de la guerra fijó el carácter definitivo de los campos de concentración. Sólo él daba las órdenes al servicio de Seguridad, sólo él tenía el derecho a hacerlo.

A system which in every act of its life sacrifices the welfare of large sections of the people, yes, of whole nations, to the selfish lust for power and the economic interests of small minorities must of necessity dissolve all social ties and lead to a constant war of all against all.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!"But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.

Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!There's no discharge in the war!

We aren't no thin red 'eroes.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15 000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

The Fuhrer himself was the target of the fourth leaflet: "Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed." This leaflet ended with the words "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.

When I think of the sacrifice yet to be offered and the hearts and homes yet to be made desolate before this dreadful war is over, my heart is like lead within me, and I feel at times like hiding in a deep darkness.

By the end of 1914, after less than five months of combat, more than 600,000 soldiers on both sides had been killed on the Western Front.

In August, President Truman made the decision that death had spared Roosevelt from having to make. Truman ordered the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9).

In the first days of mobilization there was of course a lot of enthusiasm," recalled Robert Poustis, who was a French student at the time.

In this sunshine," wrote Max Plowman in his memoir of the war, "it seems impossible to believe that at any minute we in this trench, and they in that, may be blown to bits by shells fired from guns at invisible distances by hearty fellows who would be quite ready to stand you a drink if you met them face to face.

The war was like a slow-burning campfire onto which both sides occasionally threw wood. And that's probably the way it would have continued, if not for the arrival of the Autodefensas.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

But Palestine was derived from the name "Philistine," the people who were constantly at war with the ancient Israelites.

The fog of war hinders the enemy, and so let us leave him with it rather than dispel it.

After the liberation, when the American Army freed me—I was working in a Nazi slave-labor camp—I went back to our home in Brno. I looked for my family. But they were all dead. Then I looked for the families of my friends. Judith, dear, it grieves me to tell you that your family, too, were all exterminated.