In war there is no substitute for victory.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.
This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it’s about bashing men, asking for free stuff, and tearing down other women for refusing to play victim to the trumped-up, B.S. ‘War on Women.’
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
I’m a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn’t as insidious as American nationalism, though. It’s good natured. It’s all about maple syrup, not war.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.
Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.
Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.
I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.
During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
Football is a competition to see who’s the best, not a battle. It’s not a war. When it ends, we’re still alive.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
