Joseph Heller

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

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!

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

[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.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

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.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.

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.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another Direction