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  • War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

    Death   Military   War  
    "The Civil War Generation". Book by Norman K. Risjord, p. 143, 2002.
  • I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.

    War   Jingoism   Want  
  • People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

    War   People   Political  
  • It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

    War   Distance   Cities  
  • No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

    Country   Military   War  
    Attributed in Patton (motion picture) (1970). This is sometimes said to have been uttered in a speech by Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the Third Army, 31 May 1944, but documentation is lacking. The following poem appeared in the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy Department News Letter, 1 Jan. 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our enemies die for theirs!"
  • The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

    War   Revolution   Cases  
    Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”
  • American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.

    War   School   Thinking  
    Source: deadline.com
  • Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

    War   Scripts   Easy  
  • The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

    War   Years   People  
  • It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.

    Dream   War   Patriotic  
    Source: www.neh.gov
  • Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find out what is the truth. In the general population, people forget or don't care that much. And gradually what you hear drilled into your head everyday comes to be believed. People don't understand what you're talking about any more if you discuss the American war on South Vietnam.

    War   Talking   People  
    Source: chomsky.info
  • Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

    "Transcript of Peter Arnett interview on Iraqi TV". www.cnn.com. March 30, 2003.
  • We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

    War   Men   White Man  
  • When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

  • All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

    Peace   War   Fighting  
  • But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

    Religious   Real   War  
    Letter to Hezekiah Niles, 13 Feb. 1818
  • The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

    War   Sides   Remembered  
    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

    Wall   Memorable   Europe  
    Remarks at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany, 12 June 1987
  • David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.

    War   Iraq   Effort  
  • Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

    War   Loss   Years  
    John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
  • We have guided missiles and misguided men.

    Peace   War   Science  
    Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)
  • The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

    War   Drama   Government  
    Letter to Price, May 25, 1786.
  • U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.

    War   Party   Men  
  • If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

    Peace   War   Should Have  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.117
  • To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

    1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.
  • When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.

    War   Latin   Dictator  
  • Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

    Peace   War   History  
    John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474
  • We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

    Stupid   War   Gun  
    Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books
  • You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

    Peace   Military   War  
    Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)
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