war

"Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the pe…"

"The war has ended - quite differently, indeed, from how we expected. Our politicians have failed us miserably."

"There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. ... And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule."

"The Mexicans were badly commanded, and there was very little hard fighting during that war, at least nothing to be compared with what was seen afterward in our own. Our soldiers had only to show the b…"

"Conlan Press champions Beagle's fight for his royalties"

"Beginning from today, we shal shift over to the partisan tactic. Three battle companies will move out tonight, with two tasks: reconnaissance and obtaining arms. Do you remember, short-range weapons a…"

"While I do not believe that there is a purely military solution to this conflict, I do believe that there will be a military component to any viable solution."

"Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe? Do you decide and say, "I am going to observe and learn"? For then there is the question: "Who is deciding?" Is it will that says, "I must"? And whe…"

"I like how if you criticize the war you don't support the troops. You're the ones sending them over to die, so how is it I don’t support them? If the army was made up of child molesters, then I'd supp…"

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable"

"Many persons believed, or pretended to believe, and confidently asserted, that freed slaves would not make good soldiers; they would lack courage, and could not be subjected to military discipline. Fa…"

"The war was fought throughout and ultimately won, not only by the usual military weapons in the narrower sense, but by the whole economic, industrial, and financial systems of the belligerent Powers. …"

"Violence creates nothing but violence, no matter what we call it and what the excuse. And so it goes, down all the centuries."

"Can we, however, expect that the Soviet Union will come out of the coming great war without defeat? To this frankly posed question, we will answer as frankly: If the war should remain only a war, the …"

"The lower populace is of a brutal and insolent nature, and is very quarrelsome. Should two men of this class have a disagreement which they cannot end up amicably, they retire into some quiet place an…"

"Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat."

"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But t…"

"Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them."

"I am glad that my hon. Friend has raised the problems of the Kurdish people in Iraq, and I am sure that they will be grateful for that. Although the Government may not allow the export of military har…"

"I will not fight against it nor discriminate, but if I see two men kissing on the street, I'll beat them up."