Civilians Quote by Lloyd Austin

I learned a thing or two about urban warfare from my time fighting in Iraq.

— Lloyd Austin

The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if…

— Jimmy Doolittle

“To protect civilians, the state needs sometimes to do things that are contrary to democratic behavior. It is true that in units like ours…

— Michael Bar-Zohar

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

— Stuart Symington

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

— Barry Goldwater

You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right,…

— James G. Stavridis

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

— Rachel Corrie

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and…

— Sebastian Junger

Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

— Gabriel Kolko

If we harm civilians when it could reasonably have been avoided, and if we fail to fairly and promptly help the innocent victims, the…

— Patrick Leahy

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

— Richard M. Nixon