War Quotes - Page 26

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.

The effort to blur the lines between Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib reflects a deep misunderstanding about the different legal regimes that apply to Iraq and the war against al Qaeda.

We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.