War Quotes

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

And then fourth, we have that essential group of people who track programs and budgets to ensure that they align with the needs of preparation and warning, counterintelligence and support to the operational war fighter.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th.

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

War would end if the dead could return.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.