WAR QUOTES

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:22 am

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" -

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:52 am

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
- Clara Barton

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Fri Jun 19, 2009 12:54 pm

I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. Night fell again. There was war to the south, but our sector was quiet. The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.
- John Fowles, "The Magus" ( $ ) ( ? )

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:11 am

Anyone, who truly wants to go to war, has never truly been there before!
- Larry Reeves

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:30 am

Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out. Niether side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing - not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it - without crutches.
- Peter Weiss

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:26 am

War is the continuation of politics by other means
- Karl Von Clausewitz

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:58 am

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Thu Jun 25, 2009 8:30 am

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

by **Old Timer** Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:18 pm

Peregrine(Endangered) wrote:War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What you say is true but do not forget that it is the very nature of the beast.

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Thu Jun 25, 2009 4:33 pm

so you think its hopeless. We don't have the intelligence to overcome war and its aftermath?

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:36 am

War is not nice.
Barbara Bush
US wife of George Bush 1945 (1925 - )

by **Old Timer** Fri Jun 26, 2009 9:50 am

Peregrine(Endangered) wrote:so you think its hopeless. We don't have the intelligence to overcome war and its aftermath?

War is the perfered way of nations to control the population and for industry as wel.l As new ideas and inventions always are the outcome of war as well as a jump in industrial nations output

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:56 am

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg, The People, Yes (1936)
US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967)

by **CarolinaHound** Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:11 pm

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Sun Jun 28, 2009 5:33 am

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority,
just cause, right motive."
- Ernest Hemingway

by Theophilus Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:18 am

Old Timer wrote:
Peregrine(Endangered) wrote:War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

What you say is true but do not forget that it is the very nature of the beast.

War might be difficult, but to sustain peace is more difficult.

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:37 am

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war. ~George Meredith, Beauchamp's Career

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:19 pm

Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know I can see through your masks.
Bob Dylan

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:42 am

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

Ralph Bunche

by **Old Timer** Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:59 pm

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

by Theophilus Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:04 pm

Old Timer wrote:What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

I guess it does not matter the name it was wrought under. War sucks.

To the dead though. I am sure they thought their life had meaning.

They looked to the sky, and saw the bombs falling towards them.

They looked at their family, and with a tear, said goodbye.

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Fri Jul 03, 2009 4:25 pm

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:44 am

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:52 am

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object.
Abraham Lincoln

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:40 am

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.
Bill Clinton

by **Peregrine(Endangered)** Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:58 am

In war there is no prize for the runner-up.
General Omar Bradley

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