Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

John le Carre

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

John T. Flynn

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

James Lovelock

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

Jeff Rich

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Nick Cave

During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

Philip Gibbs

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.

Pierre Salinger

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

Paul Wolfowitz

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

Rand Paul

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Sebastian Junger

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

Tom Harkin

He who is sure of his victory will not start a war.

Chinese

Those who do not go to war roar like lions.

Kurdish

In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly sad. Too funny, too explosive, too confusing. Heroes are uncomplicated. *This* m...

The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

A war changes people in a number of ways. It either shortcuts you to your very self; or it triggers such variations that you might as well have been a larva, pupating in dampness, darkness and tightly wrapped puttees. Then, providing you don't take f...

Ann-Marie MacDonald

A brick could be used to stop war. Logically, a non-brick could be used to start a war. The most common non-brick war starter is of course a politician, which is misleading because despite being non bricks, politicians are surprisingly very brick-lik...

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, ...

Tom Hanks

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War — from 1756 to 1763 — and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitia...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Do you really not know of the magnificence of war? Or how worthless peace is? Peace only leads mankind to depravity! What is so good about it?! It is only for war that a human forges and improves his body! Indeed, humanity creates weapons to fight ea...

Shin Devilman

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the err...

My Experiences in the World War