Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.
Victory is the most important aspect in Iraq, because victory in Iraq will help us have victory in the War on Terror.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.
I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
