America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
“Congress, however, stiffened, cutting off appropriations for such bombing as of August 15, 1973. In November it overrode a presidential veto to… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“We train for war and fight to win. I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
“The War Has Been Declared. Your Ally Been Ensnared. It Is Now Or It Is Never. Break The Code Or Die Forever.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that stops women laughing… — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share Image
We have to make sure we control who enters our country. And we have to sustain and increase our efforts to fight… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“When you lose a friend [in battle] you have an overpowering desire to go back home and yell in everybody's ear, "This… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“Of course we would all like to "believe" in something, like to assuage our private guilts in public causes, like to lose… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Not only did I vote against that war, I helped lead the opposition, and if you go to my website, berniesanders.com, you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war… — Claus von Stauffenberg Copy Share Image
The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
We now believe it is appropriate for Saddam Hussein to be forced to change, either by the threat of war, and therefore… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was… — Ken Lucas Copy Share Image
“The little I have, I share with you; the little you have, you also share with me. Together we all have a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment, we will… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can only be me. So at the end of the day I have to fight my own battles, and live my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger,… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If a witch needs something, another witch will give it to her. If there is war to be fought, we don't consider… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by sound government?' Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime,… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Before the war on drugs, the war on terror, or the war on cancer, there was the war on female sexual desire.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
We often know only one version of the story... the version portrayed by the person who wins a war and lives to… — Puneet Issar Copy Share Image
My great-great-uncle Joseph Lorenz was a Private 1C in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Force, Rainbow… — Emily Compagno Copy Share Image
I think what history will show is that one of the most tragic results of the war in Iraq will be that… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image