A war between Europeans is a civil war.
A state of war is not a blank check… when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I’m very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that.
I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.
I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
With the end of the cold war, all the ‘isms’ of the 20th century – Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism – have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years’ War and of history.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
There’s no way the writing staff of ‘Game of Thrones’ haven’t read ‘The Art of War.’ There’s definitely an influence on ‘Game of Thrones’ from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies.
The pace of change and the speed of war has greatly accelerated.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn’t the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
The American system of civilian control of the military recognizes that soldiers’ attention must be fixed on winning battles and staying alive, and that the fog of war can sometimes obscure the rule of law.
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
