Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
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.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction
A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
[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.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
That’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.
