war

"I now return you the memoir … I am much gratified by its communication, because, as the plan appeared in the newspapers soon after the new Secretary of War came into office, we had given him the credi…"

"If we stand still, we're going backwards. We've got to keep moving forward and appear to be moving forward."

"Beware of assumptions that seem “obvious” in one decade. They may become quaint in the next."

"Tom, I'm a veteran. Okay? I did not get a deferment because I was too depressed to fight a war I supported in Vietnam. I'm a veteran. They want a more effective V.A."

"Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right..."

"If you don't own a piece of land, you're a coward."

"Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is…"

"That's the ultimate pornography... There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war."

"The Iliad of Homer, trans. Edward, Earl of Derby"

"There are no words to express the devastation of the Nandimarg massacre and the sad history of the Kashmiri Pandits... The conflict in Kashmir cannot be separated from the global war against terrorism…"

"Infancy, n. The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, 'Heaven lies about us.' The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward."

"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum."

"In Sudan, Bin Laden decided to acquire and, when possible, use chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons against Islam's enemies. Bin Laden's first moves in this direction were made in co…"

"It is entirely possible that the world is being led to destruction by nothing more than the greed of the US military-security complex... the Obama regime has resurrected the Cold War, thus providing a…"

"All Wars are Follies, very expensive, and very mischievous ones. When will Mankind be convinced of this, and agree to settle their Differences by Arbitration? Were they to do it, even by the Cast of a…"

"Let us be clear: the Yemeni revolution has already brought internal stability to a state riddled with war and conflict."

"Back in the 1980s, I wrote a long detailed article about the design concepts that the AR-15's creator, Eugene Stoner, put into this weapon, and the ways it changed before going into service as the mil…"

"I myself believe in free trade and would be glad it could be implemented whenever possible. But in the actual conflict that led to the Civil War, we had two obstacles to free trade, and I ask you to t…"

"To say that Soleimani , himself personally, was an imminent threat is, as I said before, laughable. And the fact that Esper and Pompeo, who have some manner of expertise in military affairs, are sayin…"

"Oh indeed!" exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: "Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed h…"