Quotes of: Great-war Keyword

Between roars the lion purrs.

Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

The Art of War

American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

Elliott Abrams

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Georges Clemenceau

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

Noam Chomsky

My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.

Clint Eastwood

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

Don Rickles

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Barack Obama

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Eric Kandel

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

James Hillman

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Paul Robeson

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Ramsey Clark

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

Ruth Duccini

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

Ron Paul

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

Stephen Bayley

I think that war is diplomacy by other means, for sure, and there have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons. There are wars that have had to be fought, and there will probably continue to be.

Stephen Lang

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Sri Chinmoy

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's ...

Drew Gilpin Faust