War Quotes · Page 89

If we were living back in 1789, your musket would be really useful in a military conflict. If you were called up…

— Ted Cruz

“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”

— Warsan Shire

“And I loved the way that felt. That private battle, and the way I always caved in the end. So maybe it…

— j.a. rock

This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and…

— Jefferson Davis

I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal…

— Katharine Gun

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

— Barney Ross

What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a…

— Peter Bergen

“What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?”

— Frances Hardinge

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Returning my attention to Quinn, I found him watching me with a glare of suspicion. “How old are you?” I reared back an inch, but…

— Penny Reid

One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are…

— Ian Hacking

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

— Ramzan Kadyrov

“My body had declared war on itself and I was losing.”

— Mehwish Younus

From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko

“What a splendid little war!”

— John Hayes

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and…

— Rebecca Traister

The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing…

— Thomas Jefferson

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

— Sun Tzu

“Some wars are unavoidable and need well be fought, but this doesn't erase warfare's waste. Sorry, we must say to the mothers…

— Anthony Swofford

“Make tea, not war”

— Monty Python

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely…

— Marquis de Sade

When I go home people'll ask me, Hey, why do you do it man? What, you some kinda war junkie? You know…

— US Army Ranger (Name

I think national pride leads to nothing but wars and hate.

— John Lydon

Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation,…

— Claudio Magris

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown…

— Nina Bawden

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

— Anonymous

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't…

— Arnon Goldfinger

“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or…

— Tim O'Brien

In times of war, my brothers never let me down.

— Artem Lobov

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

— Heinrich Heine

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

— Omar N. Bradley

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

— Susan B. Anthony

Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or…

— Max Brooks

This is the warfare of the future. America's dominance in this arena [cybersecurity] must be unquestioned.

— Donald Trump

When I came into WWE after Monday Night Wars, it wasn't my greatest time in the business... but they kept bringing me…

— Diamond Dallas Page

“After the war, when the problem of deficient effective demand seemed to have faded into the background, a fresh question came to…

— Joan Robinson

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery