Quotes about war
war two government
[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong. Richard M. Nixon
war vietnam world
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
war thinking giving
The only place you and I disagree is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I (in contrast) don't give a damn. I don't care.". . . "I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. . . Does that bother you? I just want you to think big.
war democracy world
The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
war west losing
The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.
war white house
There can be no whitewash at the White House.
war planning spontaneous
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
war president vietnam
I'm not going to be the first American president to lose a war.
war sleep fighting
The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
war people long
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
war media people
The events that followed our withdrawal from Vietnam, including the plight of the boat people and the more than 1 million slaughtered by the new communist rulers of Cambodia, showed that media critics who said we were on the wrong side were mistaken.
war wish done
Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner.
war hypocrite reality
This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.
war iraq america
It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To North Korea? To China? That we in America are in economic doldrums and are seeing small businesses fold and houses reclaimed by banks and a smouldering panic that is palpable everywhere. Richard Schiff
war government moral
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade. Richard Rorty
war fighting giving
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it. Robert Dallek
war president doctrine
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.
war writing reflection
An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience. Robert D. Kaplan
war chinese faces
What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
war military long
The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.
war desire photographer
The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business. Robert Capa
war missing invasion
For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
war wish unemployment
The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
war hate goes-on
In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on
war actresses dangerous
The war is like an actress who is getting old. It's less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous. (1944)
war cameras best-picture
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
war sleepwalking
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history. Robert Byrd
war thinking horrible
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences
war mistake iraq
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
war lying kids
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. Richard Price
war lying kids
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
war individual made
Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out. Richard Cobden
war doors agreement
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.