Quotes of: War-hero Keyword

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

Yoweri Museveni

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Antony Beevor

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Arleigh Burke

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

Ashleigh Banfield

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Ahmed Chalabi

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Amelia Earhart

It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.

Andrew Greeley

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

Arthur Henderson

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

Brooke Astor

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Benedict Cumberbatch

In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

Barton Gellman

Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

B. H. Liddell Hart

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Barack Obama

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Benjamin Spock

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Chaka Fattah