Quotes About War

A conquering army on the border will not be halted by the power of eloquence.

The great questions of the time are not decided by speeches and majority decisions—that was the error of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you.

If they did not credit it, we did. We knew it was against all maxims of war for Cavalry to act without support, or infantry at hand. We knew that in all probability few indeed, if any of us, would ever come back from that rapid and deadly ride. But the order was given. There were the guns — and away we went, quickening from trot to canter, and from canter to gallop, as we drew nearer to them. On we went, spurring our horses across the space that divided us from those grim fiery mouths.

A victory looks but a sorry thing to the boy conscript lying cramped, and bleeding, and crushed, and woe-begone in the ambulance wagon on the red evening-tide after the battle.

Out campaigning, one is free from all that trash. Before the cannon's mouth men cannot stop to split straws; and with one's own life on a thread, one cannot stop to ruin another's character. I do not know how it is — I have read pretty widely, but philosophers never preached endurance to me as well as Nature.

Agriculture and war, we feel, were the primary businesses of life, and it was to these that the Roman mind instinctively flew when it was casting about for some means of expressing a new abstract idea—of realizing the unknown in terms of the known. Not often could the warlike city afford to beat her swords into ploughshares, but she was constantly melting both implements into ideas.

Perhaps that was what the war was really about. Twas an entire nation of runaways, America in 1861, and your place in society depended on what you had run from and when. Perhaps General McClellan was right that the war was not really about slavery. Perhaps it was a struggle between the dreams of men who would run no more.

I think war is just part of human nature. And I'm fascinated by human nature – especially the dark side. I always have been. It doesn't make me a Devil worshipper, no more than being interested in Hitler makes me a Nazi. I mean, if I'm a Nazi, how come I married a woman who's half Jewish?

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

conforme España, mal gobernada, continuamente en guerra, endeudada y empobrecida, trataba de reponerse del gran trauma de la derrota de su Armada Invencible frente a los ingleses en 1588.

Treacherousgenerals:look at my dead house,look at broken Spain.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill them.

El cadáver de Gustavo tenía treinta y siete heridas. Había en sus bolsillos sesenta y tres pesos, tres cartas de su esposa Carolina y un libro de apuntes cuya última frase era: «Todo está perdido. Los soldados no quieren pelear».

Quizá el mejor resumen de lo que la chinaca significó en aquellos años terribles para la república de 1864 y 1865 esté en la frase de Eduardo Ruiz que caracteriza a una fuerza inmune a la derrota: "México perdiendo gana, si no es hoy será mañana".

Chinaco: traducción inmediata del sans-culotte francés, "sin pantalones". La palabra chinaco se usó México durante la guerra de Independencia pero no se hará popular hasta 1862. Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo: "hicieron del insulto un emblema", en Ciudadanos imaginarios.

La relación de la futura guerra de Texas con Hollywood fue siempre una relación amorosa. Sobre esta guerra se han filmado más películas y documentales que sobre cualquier otro hecho bélico de la futura leyenda estadounidense.

En el gran vacío político que deja la desaparición de los numerosos cuadros de la independencia muertos en diez años de terrible guerra, el desastre de la falsa salida imperial iturbidista y la posterior vida frágil de la titubeante y dividida república, Santa Anna asciende, se eleva, se vuelve útil e indispensable. Irineo Paz dirá: «El gran Santa Anna, que por fuerza tenía que ser grande cuando lo rodeaban tantos peque

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

But war, as we will see, creates its own motives as combat escalates, and it rarely follows a course that does not have unintended consequences that subordinate its original purpose.71