War Quotes - Page 16

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence,and that, or extermination, we WILL have.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.