War Quotes - Page 395

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

There can be no stewardship without stewards.

...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.