Quotes About War

Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about.

He was excited by the war fever and pleased that Scarlett had made so good a match, and who was he to stand in the way of young love when there was a war? Ellen, distracted, finally gave in as other mothers throughout the South were doing. Their leisured world had been turned topsy-turvy, and their pleadings, prayers and advice availed nothing against the powerful forces sweeping them along.

When Scarlett was seeing Rhett to the door, she asked indignantly: "If it were you, wouldn't you enlist with the Yankees to keep from dying in that place and then desert?" "Of course," said Rhett, his teeth showing beneath his mustache. "Then why didn't Ashley do it?" "He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!

The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

Laws are silent in time of war.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I lay in bed that March morning, listening to noises from below stairs and priding myself on the fact that I had kept peace in the house since January. If I didn't, we might all kill each other. Not with guns, no. We'd had our fill of guns with the war. But with words, the way civilized people kill each other every day.

War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever.