The ‘60s are my favorite decade – with the Cold War, the women’s movement. And then there’s the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.
Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst.
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Don’t settle; don’t compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
Constant reference to a ‘war on terror’ did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole ‘war on women’ thing in my head.
How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won’t take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It’s mostly about random pointless death and misery.
