Quotes About War

People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried network correspondents. They're young freelancers. They're kind of a cheap date for the news industry.

In war you're either a collaborator or you're a resistor. I mean you don't get to be neutral.

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.

Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

I covered the first Gulf War in Saudi Arabia and Israel for ABC News.

Trump's war on the nation's news media, his war on truth, his war on reality ultimately caused him to become the first U.S. president to be impeached two times.

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.

If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.

There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war.

She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was so complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangelh erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him.

They were neither the first casualties of the war nor the last. The war went on.

Nicholas Sparks The Lucky One

In every war," said Engelbrecht, "the armament maker who sells internationally is arming a potential enemy of his own country—and that, practically, if not legally, is treason.

I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war.

nunca se deve deixar prosseguir uma crise para escapar a uma guerra, mesmo porque dela não se foge mas apenas se adia para desvantagem própria.

A guerra não se evita, apenas se adia com vantagem para os outros

The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice," a Free French newspaper commented sarcastically.

Goebbels's April announcement of totaler Krieg, in Roosevelt's view, had merely confirmed his judgment of Germany as the world's most dangerous nation, given the size and ruthlessness of its Wehrmacht and the abiding belief that Macht ist Recht: might is right.

More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the intelligentsia had, on Stalin's orders, been murdered in cold blood by Soviet occupation forces in 1940, during the time of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. That disclosure — the decomposing Polish bodies unearthed by the Germans in the Katyn forest near the Russian city of Smolensk, but the Soviets denying culpability

Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only thru annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations.