Famous Quotes About war

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history and he failed to build a true international coalition.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.