Quotes of: Warring Keyword

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

Townsend Harris

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

Ted Koppel

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Troye Sivan

Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

Vito Fossella

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Warren Christopher

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

Wendy E. Long

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

William Tecumseh Sherman

We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

Zack Wamp

Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, "What governments failed to foresee was that more young people, plus, more education, when c...

The Cold War

He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone. Human beings thems...

Diary of the War of the Pig

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for pro...

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscap...

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and national services, getting the provinces to trust each other and work together, and eliminating the opi...

A General Speaks Out: The Truth About the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

In November, when our nation remembers her fallen soldiers and honours the lost youth of my generation, the Prime Minister, government leaders and the hollow men of business affix paper poppies to their lapels and afford the dead of war two minutes' ...

Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It

Each one of us is hard at war - within. We must face this battlefield; withdraw, as the psychologist would say, our habitual projections of that strife from the world around us, and realize that we should be so busy killing the selfishness within tha...

The Buddhist Way Of Life

It didn't matter. Carson wasn’t the one for me. He wasn’t even the one for right now. My life would hopefully have its great love story but this wasn't it. It would happen in D.C. in the next four years or it would happen in Africa, if I ever got...

The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life

Death's Diary: 1942 - It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to just name a few. Forget the scythe, God damn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a holiday. (...) They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a differ...

The Book Thief

Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet. No matter how far we progress, we remain part animal, and it is the animal in us that fires our strategies, gives them life, animates us to fight. Without ...

The 33 Strategies of War

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions ...

America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 2: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom 1914-1989

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the same planet. They talk that way, but do they mean it? We should remind them that the words of the Declaration [of Independence] appl...

Artists in Times of War and Other Essays