Quotes About War

The purpose of our military is to field the finest troops possible to defend our nation and win wars.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state... when you go to war, it can't be a half-step.

The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

We often fight wars with our young.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.

When are boots in the ground no longer going to have to even be people, and is that right? When does it become 'Star Wars?' When is enough enough? When do we put this time and energy into eliminating war or reasons for war instead of creating new technology to make war easier for us?

Trillions of dollars spent on foreign wars have done nothing to make Americans feel safer at home.

Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.

I can't think of a single example of two mature democracies going to war with each other in the 20th century. It's where there was an absence of democracy and a breakdown of democracy that we finish up with these wars.

If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.

We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.

The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.'

'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'