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If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war, politically and militarily, the unanimous choice would have been Korea. Adams
It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.
I am really persuaded that if we were to inquire of all the Cities whichhave fallen by Siege into the Power of new Masters, who it was that subjected and overcame them, they would tell you, the Architect; and that they were strong enough to have despised the armed Enemy, but not to withstand the Shocks of the Engines, the Violence of the Machines and the Force of other Instruments of War with whichthe Architect, distressed, demolished and ruinated them.On the contrary, they would inform you that their greatest Defense lay in the Art and Assistance of the Architect.
We had won I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.
Make love, not war.
I have learnt from bitter experience that when the armchair theorists and the Whitehall generals start talking of a surgical war, it is time to run for cover.
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went.
A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
Let us not be deceivedwe are today in the midst of a cold war.
The cold war isgetting warmer.
I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
I've never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
Just foraword'neutrality'aword which inwartimehas so often been disregardedjust for a scrap of paper Great Britain isgoing to make war on a kindred nation who desires nothing better than to be friends with her.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
The most urgent tasks in Britain, once war is over, are, on the one hand, the making of a common attack on the giant evils of Want, Disease,Ignorance and Squalor, and on the other hand, the re-equipping of British industry.
The L is a man of war: the L is his name.
Saul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought againstthe dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
Every time I have asked us to go to war, I have hated it. I spent months trying to get Milosevic to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, delaying action while we negotiated endlessly.
At every stage, we should seek to avoid war. But if the threat cannot be removed peacefully, please let us not fall for the delusion that it can be safely ignored.
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre. It is magnificent, but it isn't war.
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong timeand with the wrong enemy.
Der Krieg findet immer einen Ausweg. War always finds a way. Brezhnev
Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watchyet it must be and it will be waged on our watch.
It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.
We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper that bears his name upon it as well as mine: 'We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement, as symbolic of the desire of our two people never to go to war with one another again.'
We should seek byall 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. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
This morning, the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we heard from them by11o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.
Guerre aux cha" teaux, paix aux chaumie' res. War to the castles, peace to the cottages.
The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.
War settles nothingto win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Of all tyrannies in history, the Bolshevik tyranny is the worst, the most destructive, the most degrading. Every British and French soldier killed last year was really done to death by Lenin and Trotskynot in fair war, but by the treacherous desertion of an ally without parallel in the history of the world.
Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which, however formidable and devastating, were but desparate and vain appeals against the decision of Fate.
This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain It is a warto establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.
No onecanguaranteesuccessinwar, butonlydeserveit.
Silent enim leges inter arma. For laws are silent in time of war. 218
Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam. The sinews of war, unlimited money.
Cedant arma togae, concedant laurea laudi. Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
These men too were criminals. Their crime was vast. They had lost a war. And they had lived.
Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it.
La guerre, c'est une chose trop grave pour la confier a' des militaires. War is too serious a business to be left to generals.
Politique inte rieure, je fais la guerre; politique exte rieure, je fais toujours la guerre. Je fais toujours la guerre. My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
We have won the war. Now we have to win the peaceand that may be more difficult.
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
In the sex war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutionevena fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.
Britainwill not be involved ina Europeanwar this year, or next year either.
What makeswarinteresting forAmericansisthat wedon't fight waronoursoil,we don't have directexperience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There isgrandeur in this view of life.
And blood in torrents pour In vainalways in vain, For war breeds war again.
La France a perdu une bataille! Mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre! France has lost a battle! But France has not lost the war!
I, Dekanahwideh, and the Confederated Chiefs, now uproot the tallest pine tree, and into the cavity thereby made we cast all weapons of war Thus shall the Great Peace be established.
All delays are dangerous in war. 288
War is the trade of kings.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying, If the world be worth thy winning, Think, oh think, it worth enjoying.
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.
You haveto take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessaryart. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
We are not at war with Egypt.We are in armed conflict.
I shall go to Korea, to try to end the war.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real womenand absurd.
It was a terrible time through which I was living. The war raged about us, and nobody knew whether or not he would be alive the next week.
There never was a good war or a bad peace. 334
Troops always ready to act, my well-filled treasury, and the liveliness of my dispositionthese were my reasons for making war on MariaTheresa.
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Soldati, io esco da Roma. Chi vuole continuare la guerra contro lo straniero venga con me. Non posso offrigli ne onori ne stipendi; gli offro fame, sete, marce forzate, battaglie e morte. Chi ama la Patria me segua. Soldiers, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, follow me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages, I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace on earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
I will not have another war. If there is another and we are threatenedwith being brought intoit,Iwill gotoTrafalgar Square and wave a red flag myself sooner thanallow this country to be brought in.
Delegimus certum otium studiorum, quam incertum negotium bellorum. We have opted for the certain leisure of study, rather than the uncertain business of war.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasyand Forever be Itself again. See Sandburg 713:6.
We can now look forward with something like confidence to the time when war between civilised nations will be considered as antiquated as a duel.
What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth Even when the season was the airiest May?
If there is war, there will be Labourgovernments in every countryand quite right too.
Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.
I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375
All the wars that are now afoot in Europe have been fused together, and have become a single war.
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of the war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Ihadthepaperbut Ididnot read it becauseIdidnot want to read about the war. I was going to forget the war. I had made a separate peace.
War has three handmaidens ever waiting on her, Fire, Blood, and Famine, and I have chosen the meekest maid of the three.
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the orderof nature and causes parentsto inter theirchildren.
We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilisation of East Asia.
It was not clear to me that our course was unjustified. Even now I am not sure how historians will allocate the responsibility for the war.
Wer in Europa die Brandfackel des Krieges erhebt, kann nur das Chaos wu« n schen. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength, and their own invention shall furnish them withall. In such condition, there isno place for industry; becausethe fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms: But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms!
A wonderful timethe War: when money rolled in and blood rolled out.
But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Among the calamities of War may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined bya hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall payany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
The cold reaches of the universe must not become the new area of an even colder war.
Mankind must put anend towaror war will put anend to mankind.
And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, Women and Horses and Power and War. Kipling And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
We know the war prepared On every peaceful home, We know the hells declared For such as serve not Rome, The terror, threats and dread In market, hearth and field: We know when all is said We perish if we yield.
For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!
We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win.
The most persistent sound that reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.
We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it'slike, what we'regoing through.We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room.
Tout au monde est me" le d'amertume et de charmes: La guerre a ses douceurs, l'hymen a ses alarmes. Everything in the world is a mixture of the sweet and the sour: War has its own sweetness and marriage its alarms.
War is, undoubtedly, hell, but there is no earthly reason why it has to start so early in the morning.
It is well that war is so terrible.We should grow too fond of it.
Securitycan only be obtained bya scheme by whichthe nations of Europe and outside agree together that all will guarantee each, and each will guarantee all. The purposes ofthewar will be attained ifthereisa League of Nations with an absolute and decisive veto upon any mere aggression, and consideration of any legitimate claims that any of the countries engaged in the war may be able to make good.
Then down came the lidthe day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo.World-politics stepped in, and a war was started whichhasnot ended yet: 'a war to end war'.But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging theworld intoawelterof bloodshedand death.
At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
We have been too comfortable and too indulgentmany, perhaps, too selfishand the stern hand of fatehasscoured ustoan elevationwhere we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks we had forgotten, of honour, duty, patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.We shall descend into the valleys again, but as long as men and women of thisgeneration last, they will carry in their hearts the image of those great mountain peaks, whose foundations are not shaken, though Europe rock and sway in the convulsions of a great war.
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly.
And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace By each button, hook, and lace. For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?
Ez fer war, I call it murder, There you hev it plain an'flat; I don't want to go no furder Than myTestyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an'fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.
In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
The rugged miners poured to war from Medip's sunless caves.
The war inVietnam[is] of questionable loyaltyand constitutionalitydiplomatically indefensible morally wrong.
Imyself believethat wehave lostthiswarineverything but actuality.When I see scores of sheep go to a slaughter-house I do not feel constrained to admire their resignation.
We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.
Idon't object toit being called'McNamara'swar' It isa very important war and I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.
A test case of US capacity to help a nation meet a Communist 'war of liberation'.
Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.
Votre plaisir g|"t de s honorer les femmes, et votre honneur tuer les hommes en guerre; qui sont deux points formellement contraires a' la loi de Dieu. Your pleasure lies in dishonouring women and your honour lies in killing men at war; two acts which stand in contradiction to the law of God.
We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.
From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tents of war.
Accurst be he that first invented war.
God grant that we may not have a European war thrust upon us, and for such a stupid reason too, no I don't mean stupid, but to have to go to war on account of tiresome Serbia beggars belief.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
Whenever one comes to close grips with so-called idealism, as in war time, one is shocked by its rascality.
I'vegot yourhappyending.We'll lettheGermanswinthe war.
Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
War then, war Open or understood must be resolved.
On war and mutual slaughter bent.
Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
War yit with the Skottes, for thai er ful of gile.
War is the national industry of Prussia.
The sky snivels green snot. There is war.
Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement with the world Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.
War hath no fury like a non-combatant. See Congreve 231:23.
Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'
Le droit des gens est naturellement fonde sur ce principe: que les diverses nations doivent se faire, dans la paix, le plus de bien, et, dans la guerre, le moins de mal qu'il est possible, sans nuire a' leurs ve ritables inte re" ts. Law is naturally founded on this principle: that different nations should do, in peace and as far as best as they can in war, the least harm as possible, without harming their true interests.
We live in a time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president, a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. We are against this war, Mr Bush. Shame on you, Mr Bush. Shame on you.
The Minstrel-boy to the war isgone, In the ranks of death you'll find him; His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. Theyare generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that theyalready have.
The Doctorissaidalsotohaveinventedanextraordinary weapon which will make war less brutal. It is described as a very powerful liquid which rots braces at a distance of a mile.
Barely a twelvemonth after The seven days war that put the world to sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came.
Ihave precious little sympathy for theselfish proprietyof civilized man, and if awarof racesshould occurbetween the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.
War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; every other test is a mere substitute.
A nation, to remain healthy, should make war every twenty-five years.
War is to man as maternity to women.
When the war in Spain is over I shall have to find something else: the Italian character has to be formed through fighting.
Inwar, three-quartersturns onmoral considerations; the Narogin balance of actual forces counts only for the remaining quarter.
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we can triumph.
A fleet of British ships of war are the best negotiators in Europe.
Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
If the war didn't happen to kill you it was bound to start you thinking. After that unspeakable idiotic mess you couldn't go on regarding society as something eternal and unquestionable, like a pyramid.You knew it was just a balls-up. 628
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shootingthere are quite enough realcauses oftroublealready, and weneed not add to them by encouraging young men to kickeach other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroysmy property, and kills or threatenstokill me or those that are in it, and to'bind me in all cases whatsoever'to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?
Guerra a cuchillo. War to the knife.
England is one of the greatest powers of the world. No event or series of events bearing on the balance of power, or on probabilities of peace or war, can be matters of indifferencetoher, and herrighttohaveand to express opinions onmattersthusbearingonher interests is unquestionable.
Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here!
The object of war is not to die for your country. The object of war istomake damnsuretheother sonofabitch dies for his.
Civil war is impossible in the Soviet Union.
The grim fact, however, is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
I used to seeVietnam as a war rather than a country.
Out of that bungled, unwise war An alp of unforgiveness grew.
War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
War is, after all, the universal perversion.
As a woman I can't go towar, and I refuseto send anyone else.
You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe on the Little Piney. His presence here isan insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.
In a civil war, a general must knowand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practicehe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.
War is a condition of progress; the whip-cut that prevents a country from going to sleep and forces satisfied mediocrity to shake off its apathy.
Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!
You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
I have seen war I hate war.
War, then, is not a relationship between man and man, but between State and State, in which private persons are only enemies accidentally.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of militaryauthority, because I believethattheWar isbeing deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
And when war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and diein bed.
But the past is just the same,and War's a bloody game.
The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.
I don't consider myself dovish and I certainly don't consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best; And save his good broadsword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
We took away their countryand their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decayamong them and it was for this and against this they made war.Could anyone expect less?
There is manya boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
We wage no war with women nor with priests.
Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.
Who live under the shadow of war, What can I do that matters?
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Two things are always the same the dance and war.
War is capitalism with the gloves off.
Asked by the chairmantheusual question: 'Iunderstand, Mr Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to war?' hereplied (inhis curiousfalsettovoice),'Ohno, not at all, only to this war.'Better thanthiswashisreply tothe chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant.'Tell me, Mr Strachey, what would youdoif yousawa Germansoldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'
The art of war is of vital importance to the state.
There is no instance of a country having benefitted from prolonged warfare.
Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Crimea:The WarThat Would Not Boil.
The First World War had begunimposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: 'Spanishships of warat sea! Wehavesighted fifty-three!' Then sware Lord Thomas Howard: ''Fore God I am no coward; But I cannot meetthem here, for my ships are out of gear, And the half my men are sick. I must fly, but followquick. Wearesix ships oftheline; canwefight withfifty-three?' Then spake Sir Richard Grenville: 'I know you are no coward; You fly them for a moment to fight with them again. But I've ninety men and more that are lying sick ashore. I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard, To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of Spain.' So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day, Till he melted like a cloud in the silent summer heaven.
We were a people taut for war; the hills Were no harder, the thin grass Clothed them more warmly than the coarse Shirts our small bones.
The war between men and women.
Any society, so long as it is, or feels itselfto be, a working society, tends to invest in itself: a military society tends to become more military, a bureaucratic society more bureaucratic, a commercial society more commercial, as thestatus and profits of waroroffice orcommerceare enhanced by success, and institutions are framed to forward it. Therefore, when such a society is hit by a general crisis, it finds itself partly paralyzed by the structural weight of increased social investment. The dominant military or official or commercial classes cannot easily change their orientation: and their social dominance, and the institutions through which it is exercised, prevent other classes from securing power or changing policy.
In the South, the war is what is elsewhere: they date from it.
We the Peoples of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, whichtwice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to 873 mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignityand worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, and for these ends, to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one anotherasgood neighbours, and tounite our strengthto maintain international peace and security, and to ensure by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples, have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims.
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
You know that thesetwo nationshave been at war overa fewacres of snow near Canada, and that they are spending on this fine struggle more than Canada itself is worth.
The century on which we are entering, the century that will come out ofthiswar, can be and must be the century of the common man.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants' lavatory; it was her one combative action.
The story of Colonel Chapman's adventures is typical of the British way of war, and therefore begins with a complete lack of preparation.
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
There is no such thing as a little war for a great nation.
All thebusiness of war, and indeedall thebusiness of life, isto endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I call 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.
The War that will End War.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
When you're at war you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
We are constantly thinking of the great warwhich saved the Unionbut it was awar whichdid a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed beforea national consciousness.
It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
My war history has been a simple one. I have just sat in my chair and written all the time.
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