Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

War is what happens when language fails.

I like the enemy knowing there are a few guys like me around.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

People like to talk about war.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The victor belongs to the spoils.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.