The wounded are instruments, singing pain.
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.
I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.
I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families.
After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.
