Quotes about war
war class ignorant
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Henry Ward Beecher
war law community
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.
war sunday england
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
war land soul
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
war ideas theology
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
war europe blood
Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
war selfish heart
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
war failure done
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination. Henry Knox
war eyebrows victory
The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory. Henry L. Stimson
war unconditional-love japan
As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
war people world
History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.
war japan people
When the news first came that Japan had attacked us my first feeling was of relief that ... a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to be my dominant feeling in spite of the news of catastrophes which quickly developed.
war views years
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace. Henry Clay
war psychosis government
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. Helen Suzman
war leader literature
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer. Helen Thomas
war israel passing-on
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
war moving order
The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
war office renovation
We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.
war order vietnam
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
war giving people
Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.
war house-of-cards broken
The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse. Heinz Guderian
war play battle
Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.
war gun fire
As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end
war heart stupidity
It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart John Knowles
war heart pedants
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? Johann Kaspar Lavater
war appreciate enemy
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
war jerusalem recognition
You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid. Hanan Ashrawi
war states worst
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives. Hamid Karzai
war people terrorism
If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
war believe political
The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
war thinking order
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed. Gustav Stresemann
war loss germany
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
war men rooms
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. Grantland Rice