war

"Now listen here: Printing top secret information. I don't care how they feel about the war. Whether they're for or against it. They can't and should not do this and attack the integrity of government …"

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

"Ideals as to what should be the attitude of different nations and different classes toward each other, Christian people already have. Surely it is high time that we should also have definite ideas as …"

"The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight."

"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

"I recommended that we establish contact with . We had established contact through a military mission there but that we did not ... we should not withdraw recognition from Chiang Kai-shek at that time,…"

"Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease."

"It's always the same thing, one war after another —"

"Modern warfare is ghastly beyond exaggeration and civil war among industrial populations is the most diabolical form of conflict."

"I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures."

"Prince William is very keen on the idea of war and regrets that things seem now to look more pacific. He was pleased when I expressed to him my opinion that the enlargement of our army will soon set t…"

"We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser ev…"

"MA CHERE AMIE, … I awake to fears of invasion, to noise, faction, drums, soldiers, and care:- the whole town has now but two employments- the learning of French, and the exercise of arms- which is hig…"

"You may roughly divide the nations of the world as the living and the dying. On the one side you have great countries of enormous power growing in power every year, growing in wealth, growing in domin…"

"It is not necessarily for mercenary soldiers to know what is going on. It is sufficient for them to do the job for which they have taken the gold. That had been drummed into me from the moment I enlis…"

"We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and …"

"The CIA maintains prepackaged stocks of foreign weapons for instant shipment anywhere in the world."

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence."

"I like warming my butt by the fire."

"The period and era of using nuclear weapons is over ... Nuclear bombs are not anymore helpful and those who are stockpiling nuclear weapons, politically they are backward, and they are mentally retard…"