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War

«They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard»
Author: Alexander Cockburn | About: Truth, War | Keywords: bay, casualties, casualty, graveyard
«The chief incalculable in war is the human will.»
Author: B. H. Liddell Hart | About: War
«They create a desolation and call it peace.»
Author: Calgacus (Chieftan) | About: War
«They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here.»
Author: David Diaz | About: Reading, War | Keywords: crowds, Vietnamese
«They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.»
Author: Gamal Abdel Nasser | About: War | Keywords: defended, grains
«The absence of war is not peace.»
Author: Harry S Truman (President) | About: Absence, Peace, War
«The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.»
«The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.»
«The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.»
«The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.»