War Quotes - Page 296

One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and every war was bad. It was 4th of July. It was an outrageously political statement. I just never felt right when people in the church would take these overtly political positions especially when I felt like I was a good Christian, I was serving my country, and I just didn't feel like I deserved to be lambasted by the priest on the 4th of July.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.

Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.

The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

There was a war going on in our house. A silent war that sounded no guns, and the bodies that fell were only wishes that died and the bullets were only words and the blood that spilled was always called pride.

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised.

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.