Quotes About War

The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

Trump's direct predecessor, Barack Obama, never attacked his own generals or officials on Twitter, and never referred to war criminals as heroes.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don't want to drag that with me forever, but I don't want to forget about it, either.

Harry Truman, with what he did in dropping and having the guts to drop the bomb in 1944, saved - saved millions of American lives.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

I hated myself. I hated people who made war. I hated people who were normal. I envied them. I wish I would be normal.

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.

'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

I lived on the top of one hill and the school was at the top of another hill. Nobody ever went to school by car - we didn't have any cars during the war. So that to and from school was itself a training.

Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.

Add the shortage of blankets, warm clothing, and vegetables, and the result was likely to be more suffering and more death than had occurred earlier. The war was not over for Hood's army as it came through the gates of Camp Douglas. Another struggle for survival was beginning, and the odds of success were no better in Chicago than at Franklin or Nashville.

We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these things.

There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!

One thing the war ensured; whatever treaties might be made and truces agreed at the top, however often a state of official peace existed, there was never again to be quiet along the frontier while England and Scotland remained politically separate countries.