'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.
Just because men do not like the cold, Heaven will not stop the winter.
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid to make an agreement.
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful necessity of war ought to be stern. It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war...
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
Interesting office management skills, kind of a 'violence is not the answer so I'm going to beat the shit out of you philosophy.
I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Only worse thing than being cold, and too tired to defend yourself, is to be cold and alone. And I wouldn't ever wish that on nobody.
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
...he called after her as she disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.
In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to m...
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will ...
Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Ko...
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
Let him who does not know what war is go to war.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
