Americans play to win at all times. I wouldnt give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. Thats why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war. – George S. Patton
I dont oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. – Barack Obama
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemys strategy. – Sun Tzu
Were not going to baby sit a civil war. – Barack Obama
In most communities it is illegal to cry fire in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Im not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. Im going to say Im opposed to war. But Im also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. – John Wooden
What is not conservative about saying, Dont go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way? – Ron Paul
Theres nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we dont go to war so carelessly. – Ron Paul
I will not play tug o war. Id rather play hug o war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. – Shel Silverstein
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brothers keeper. – Hubert H. Humphrey
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We werent punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. Thats war. And this is war. – Ann Coulter
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell
Daltons records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. – Isaac Asimov
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant
The Cold War isnt thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isnt sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. – Richard M. Nixon
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didnt make it. – Henry A. Kissinger
My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but thats just the way it is. – Thom Yorke
The mothers battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. – Adrienne Rich
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldnt surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. – Alice Walker
