All I watch is war movies. The stories be touching... just to see what they go through on both sides of the fence.
There are so many books out about Abraham Lincoln out now because it's the bicentennial of his birth. I've known a lot about the Civil War, but I'm just getting more into it.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
War is the epitome of hell for all involved. I know because I have been there and back.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
It seems to me that after the second world war, Beckett finally realized he had something to write about.
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
We absolutely do need to make sure that our borders are secure. But what we need to realize and remember is that ICE was established in 2003 right at the same time as the Patriot Act, the AUMF, the Iraq War - and we look back at a lot of that time and legislation as a mistake now. And I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.
The Green New Deal we are proposing will be similar in scale to the mobilization efforts seen in World War II or the Marshall Plan. We must again invest in the development, manufacturing, deployment, and distribution of energy, but this time green energy.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
The Muslims are, as a group, attacking people because under the Quran, there is the house of Islam, and outside of it, there's the house of war.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
When you see a 14-year-old boy who has never known what peace looks like for a day in his life, there's part of you as a human being that feels some degree, you can say, compassion for the fact that these boys have known war, famine, violence and death from the day they were born.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.
It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.
Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.