Quotes About War

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AN ARMY ON THE MOVE

You're honorable. I know it, and so do you." He smiled a little at that. "I try to be. But war's war, Sassenach. Honor only makes it a bit easier to live wi' yourself, afterward.

You have to understand," I said. "He—I—we were separated by the war, the Rising. Each of us thought the other was dead. I found him again only—my God, was it only four months ago?

The year after I was born," I said, "there was a great epidemic of influenza. All over the world. People died in hundreds and thousands; whole villages disappeared in the space of a week. And then came the other, my war.

One man, a Fraser of Lovat's regiment, escaped. He meant to die on Culloden Field, Roger whispered, But he didn't.

but that our young men, our hope and future, should be thus piped away, squandered for the profit of the conqueror, and paid in the small coin of their pride.

Diana Gabaldon

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

I'll ride for Atlanta in a war before anybody else gon' have a chance to do it.

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

War is just an effect, not a cause.

American elections have usually turned on the issues of war, peace and the economy.

Advocating war is easier when you and your family are not endangered by it.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

The idea of the European community is never face a war again.

You know, Bob, school is school, one of those life experiences we kids all have to get through in order to become you. Then we wonder what all the fuss was about, especially while we're cleaning up your little messes: toxic waste, war, bank bailouts. Honestly, if we ran up debt the way you guys do? You'd ground us, take away our cells, and make us clean toilets with a toothbrush until we'd pay back every penny.

Question What is a child? A quiet between two bombardments.