war

"Returning home on leave following my second year at West Point, I called on a great-uncle who had joined the Confederate Army at the age of sixteen and had fought in a number of major Civil War battle…"

"The United States is...a warning rather than an example to the world."

"Turing Award citation"

"For those who don’t like the American Raj, a US invasion of Venezuela would mark a step forward in the crumbling of the empire. More aimless imperial over-reach, more lack of strategy, more enemies ge…"

"In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency."

"Who stemm'd the torrent of a downward age."

"No, I'm the infamous Edward Teller."

"To carry on a war for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie, a war which is a hundred times more difficult, protracted and complex than the most stubborn of ordinary wars between states, and …"

"I have to go back a bit in time, to explain why. Everybody thinks that we Indians first rose against British colonial rule in 1857. In 1741, Travancore was the only Asian power to defeat the Dutch whe…"

"We must reject any thinking of our cities as a "battlespace" that our uniformed military is called upon to "dominate." At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare oc…"

"Fucking Jews... Jews are responsible for all wars in the world."

"Nuclear power started in weaponry. It was designed for war. And any instrument that has its origins in war always has the potential for war. First because the material you need to make bombs, you’re m…"

"General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets."

"Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war."

"The way of disarmament and of mutual aid and of international cooperation is a highly dangerous way. It is not safe. But it is safer, safer than the race of armaments and the third world war."

"On the military side, we need to get two things right if we only talk about limited air strikes against Isil – and I back international action against Isil – it will be counterproductive. We have to l…"

"The next stop on Reagan's European tour after Bitburg was Madrid, where he made a speech in which he said, "I know there's been a lot of controversy about the United States and Spain at that time, ind…"

"We Christians should urge our government to destroy all its atomic bombs, stop making any additional ones, and stop all preparations to wage war with biological weapons. Such actions would... place ou…"

"I don't want to give the impression that because of gender, I was oppressed. I was, but then I lent myself to it. I regret it, as it was a disservice to women. But I was too unaware for too long."

"What is needed in Greece right now is a military junta, which would not need public approval and could use tanks against strikers and demonstrators."