Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Perle

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Ernie Conwell

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Elinor Howard

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

Russell Johnson

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Ty Votaw

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

Thomas Shannon

If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.

Paris Hilton

I like it, ... but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring.

Joschka Fischer

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

Hugh Graf

The guy threatened to stab her with a pair of scissors. That's pretty violent. Thankfully, she gave up the wedding ring, gave up the engagement ring. I know it's a tough thing to do, but it's a better outcome than if she had tried to fight.

Mahatma Gandhi

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

Kellyanne Conway

The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know what has happened. They know there's home-grown terrorism here.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Tim Kaine

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.

Shahrukh Khan

There is no religion of terrorism.

Shashi Tharoor

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.