Quotes About War

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.