Society, Justice & Peace: War Quotes

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"Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"If their were more Franklin operations, it could help the cause much more than right wing activity"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders"

Ralph Bunche, Diplomat

"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers"

John Lawson, Explorer

"At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather or some similar substance. To secure them in some sort from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily"

Gary North, Writer

"We have shown, given these last three years, that we were succeeding in fighting terrorists, while during the first 30 years of the former governments they didn't"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years"

Ken Follett, Author

"Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do"

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet

"Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Bush had been President in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible, and now we have an isolated case, which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before"

Alberto Fujimori, Statesman

"You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over"

Chuck Hagel, Politician

"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!"

William Pitt, Leader

"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"I ended the war a horse ahead"

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Soldier

"I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs, though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them!"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity"

Wilfred Owen, Soldier

"Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991"

Jon Lee Anderson, Journalist

"Feed the troops on victory"

John Monash, Soldier

"Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave"

Francis Scott Key, Author

"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular, in the field of human intelligence"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet"

Titus Flavius Vespasian, Royalty

"As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior, the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri, and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"On September 11, 2001, we thought we were going to be attacked many, many times between then and now. We haven't been. I believe we had a president who made the right decision at the right time... to put us on offense against terrorists"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes"

Tom DeLay, Politician

"We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"Greetings and death to our enemies"

Dan Aykroyd, Comedian

"The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

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