War Quotes

The road ahead is not easy. Iraq is currently the center of the war on terror.

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.

Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

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

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

And if there was one title that could be applied to all my films, it would be 'Civil War' - not civil war in the way we know it, but the daily war that goes on between us all.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.