I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
[John McCain is]… not a war hero. He’s a war hero – he’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I Like people that weren’t captured, OK, I hate to tell you.
I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
People didn’t want war. We were forced in it. How fast we finish it depends on how free a hand our generals and admirals have. The less interference they get from the politicians the quicker they’ll end it.
You don’t win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a b*tch die for his.
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.
It’s been a big week for our side. Over on the beaches of Normandy our boys have fired the opening guns of the long awaited drive to liberate the world.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
