“War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.”
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“For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.”
“We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.”
“No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.”
“War is a blessing compared with national degradation.”
“Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.”
“How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.”
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
“The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.”
“What is more immoral than war?”
“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.”
“I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.”
“When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.”
“In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.”
“As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.”
“I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.”
“This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.”
“She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.”
“I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.”
“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”
“I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.”
“A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.”
“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.”