Best American War Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.”

“All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.”

“But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.”

“It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.”

“Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.”

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Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he was serving as CIA director when he stepped down suddenly following revelations that he`d had an extramarital affair. That same investigation that turned up evidence of the affair also eventually turned up evidence that General. Petraeus had passed classified information to his mistress.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has been described as founder of the Bull Moose Party, the man who led his troops up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War, a big game hunter, family man, civic servant and a host of other things.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.”

“If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.”

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Book:Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson

“The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.”

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Author:John Yoo

“The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“All of a sudden, making a Spanish-American War joke. I think you sort of had to go to probably to an American high school to have remembered that.”

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Author:David Mandel

“It is important for us to remember that black people have been patriotic and have fought for that American dream in every American war.”

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Author:Adele Logan Alexander

“American imperialism has suffered a stunning defeat in Indochina. But the same forces are engaged In another war against a much less resilient enemy, the American people. Here, the prospects for success are much greater. The battleground is ideological, not military. At stake are the lessons to be drawn from the American war in Indochina; the outcome will determine the course and character of new imperial ventures.”

“Younger people who are being indoctrinated into the contemporary system of falsification - they really have to do some research to find out what is the truth. In the general population, people forget or don't care that much. And gradually what you hear drilled into your head everyday comes to be believed. People don't understand what you're talking about any more if you discuss the American war on South Vietnam.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

“It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.”

Source: A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

“I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.”

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Book:Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.”

“As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake.”

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Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”

“When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!”

“The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”

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Author:Benjamin Rush

“We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

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Book:No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington

Source: No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington

“The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.”

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Book:Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792

Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792

“Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.”

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Author:Peter Arnett

“We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.”

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Author:David Hackworth

“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”

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Author:Alvaro Uribe

“I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.”

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Author:Peter Berg