Famous Quotes & Sayings

Argus Hamilton

President Clinton broke ground Saturday for the World War II memorial in Washington. He'll never have the military's full respect. However, after surviving ten female accusers, he's been made an honorary member of the Tailhook Association.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to give him a false impression of his opponent's strength, and from this arises a new source of indecision.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Dirk Benedict

That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.

Dan Clark

You want students to have learned it so well they haven't forgotten it.

Claude C. Hopkins

Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten

Anita Brookner

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Albert Camus

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Merle Haggard

We're going back to remember the forgotten ones,

William Lawson

God hasn't forgotten you, no more than he had forgotten Job.

Andrew Raycroft

I guess, in a way, it's good that that didn't happen this past April. I don't think any of us who played in that series have forgotten it, though. I know it's a night I'll never forget.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.