Quotes About War

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

The problems we face now - poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad - will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.

Radical Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.