Quotes About War

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free diets. You are the superstitious ones. You convince yourself you can cheat death, and you are absolutely offended when you learn that you can't. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee.

You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.

And that was victory. The freedom to sprawl loosely upon a city street, heat his coffee and eat a can of beans ... with no enemy bullets forcing him to toss the can aside while diving behind another wall for momentary survival.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away; there is a time to fight, and that time has come!

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

He that is not in the war is not out of danger.

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk, the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

In combat, life is short, nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier; he is concerned with his literal life chances.

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.

God and a soldier all .people adore In time of war, but not before; And when war is over and all things are righted, God is neglected and an old soldier slighted.

We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

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

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.