653 quotes found
“How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.' 'You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.' My father also considere...”
“It’s not that. It’s just… never mind. Water under the bridge.” I stand up and head for my room. Two against one. No man ever won this war. It’s why we fight them against other men. At least there i...”
“Anecdotal tales of combat are meaningless to Americans, we absorb tales of violence like a sponge. Mythological violence is second nature to us. The real thing is not. War begins long before battle...”
“I knew then the answer to my question; the question I’d asked myself many times during this war, and many more times since it ended. When would I be able to put the war behind me? When would I be a...”
“Some people say the Balkans is just inherently violent. That we have to fight a war every fifty years.""I hope that's not true", I said.”
“I’m not afraid of anything and I will not fight.”
“And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.”
“War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.”
“Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
“Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“If a house be divided against itself that house cannot stand.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."”
“Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled Scots wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed Or to victorie.”
“They will conquer but they will not convince.”
“We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.”
“Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee Agreed to have a battle For Tweedle Dum said Tweedle Dee Had spoiled his nice new rattle.”
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever ...”
“Either war is obsolete or men are.”
“Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epide...”
“A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.”
