War Quotes
War, remembered and reckoned with.
This topic pairs literary observation, such as a novelist's take on the social fabric depicted in a sprawling Tolstoy epic, with hard historical fact about the 1962 border conflict between China and India. Readers interested in broader historical context can visit History.
The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
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The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's...
Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.
I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.
The idea that the British carried out hundreds of war crimes in Iraq is, of course, utterly without foundation and grossly unfair.
Don't settle; don't compromise. Freeze your eggs, get your sociology doctorate, worry more about war and pestilence and the incredible inequality of geographical birth than finding your soulmate.
From 1967 to '70, Nigeria fought a war - the Nigeria-Biafra war. And in the middle of that war, I was 14 years old. We spent much of our time with my mother cooking. For the army - my father...
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
