The history of mankind is a history of war.
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself ‘the American’ at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.
Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
War makes strange bedfellows.
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.
The war has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.
War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren’t actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation’s history and the world’s future.
We make war that we may live in peace.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
