I let him kiss me because he had been in war and he fought for me, … I only wish now I had had a conversation with him or asked his name.

First Afghanistan, now Iraq. So who’s next? Syria? North Korea? Iran? Where will it all end?’ If these illegal interventions are permitted to continue, the implication seems to be, pretty soon, horror of horrors, no...

Clearly Clinton made a gamble — the gamble that you could go to war without calling it a war. That you could use force without using ground troops. That you could fight a major fight...

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet.

But it’s natural for men to compete against each other. We’ve been doing it since the cave days. Why else do we have wars? Wars are competition, no matter what the politicians call them.

The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Politics is merely war by other means.-an old Andorian saying

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

It becomes easy,” Finbar said. “It’s in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs – you learn to...

I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn’t expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since...

Thomas Jefferson once said: ‘Of course the people don’t want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked and...

Religion is a belief or a curriculum. It can’t hurt people or start wars. People hurt people, and people start wars. The real problem is the narcissist, for he can’t control his anger and believes...

If one only donates what is not of want, one will always have what is not of need.

I run through the woods, at once applauding myself for my wit-“”Well deserved, sir. Well deserved.””And at the self instant, I am grinding my teeth because I am a vain, revenging idiot and shall be...

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

…this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy’s strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy’s strategic consolidation...

We are at war. There will be scars. – Uttara Vairati

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

The doctrine of “exit strategy” fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.

Where there is love, there is no war.

Let us change a letterfrom the word ‘EVIL’Make it ‘Ivil’as long as ‘Israel’ remains so…Let us protect the letter ‘P’for Prayers..for PALESTINE…for Peace..

My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride’s face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long...

This is a war,” Lemas replied. “It’s graphic and unpleasant because it’s fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it’s nothing, nothing at...

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don’t read much or think much — who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers’ blue eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For...

All at once he feels weary of ganefs and prophets, guns and sacrifices and the infinite gangster weight of God. He’s tired of hearing about the promised land and the inevitable bloodshed required for its...

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of...

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out…Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet ‘a...

Morire. Cosa diventa la morta in guerra? Cosa si prova ad uccidere per non essere uccisi? Cosa si prova a inciampare su copri dilaniate e abbandonati nel fango? Cosa si può provare quando, in una...

For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Take the glamour out of war! I mean, how the bloody hell can you do _that_? Go and take the glamour out of a Huey, go take the glamour out of a Sheridan…Can _you_ take...

War is like a monster,” he says, almost to himself. “War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows.” He’s looking at me now. “And otherwise normal men...

A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

At war, there’s no right or wrong.Winner’s right while loser’s wrong.

You can start a war but it won’t be you who finishes it.

the most horrendous, unimaginable war crimes committed in Europe since the end of World War II.

This isn’t shaping up to be just a civil war – it’s worse than that. It’s a war of all against all. What we have is a security vacuum that has given rise to various...

It was “Boom Boom” Dupont who had ripped Kit out of the Humvee after the IED went off, the IED that turned the entire undercarriage of his truck into a fiery wall that consumed the...

Nowadays, emotions and weapons never wins u anything, not even a battle. Thesdays its keen observations and wise strategy that trimphs. People your warlike nature can be your biggest weakness.

It is not the dead rather the ones who lives through war have seen the dreadful end of the war, you might have been victorious, unwounded but deep within you, you carry the mark of...

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win.

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all – the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.