It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war. •Kenneth Clark You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. •Jeannette Rankin War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of read more
Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists,
nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of
the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending
German influence all the world over.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before read more
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. •Otto Von Bismarck Peace with a club in hand is war. •Portuguese Proverb The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale. •Bernard Mannes Baruch The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. •Chinese Proverb Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the read more
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone,
But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by read more
You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freashly shaved faces, it was a shock. 'My God, my God —' I said to myself, 'it's the Children's Crusade.'
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power read more
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima.... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to read more
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. •William T. Sherman War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
