Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: war

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

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.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

After every war someone has to tidy up.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'

Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.