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Image of Douglas MacArthur
Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Peter Jacobson
Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."
- Peter Jacobson
Collection: War
Image of George MacDonald
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
- George MacDonald
Collection: War
Image of Rachel Maddow
after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: War
Image of Rachel Maddow
the American public has been delicately insulated from the actuality of our ongoing wars. While a tiny fraction of men and women fighting our wars are deploying again and again, civilian life remains pretty much isolated in cost-free complacency.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: War
Image of Dave Barry
Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.
- Dave Barry
Collection: War
Image of Angela Merkel
Our relationship with the United States is not reduced to questions of fighting terrorism and the Iraq war. German-American relations were so good for so many years because they extended deeply into the normal lives of people.
- Angela Merkel
Collection: War
Image of Karl A. Menninger
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms
- Karl A. Menninger
Collection: War
Image of Martin Luther
A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
- Martin Luther
Collection: War
Image of Juliet Marillier
Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.
- Juliet Marillier
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
I know what war's like. I know what scene's like.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of Marc Maron
I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.
- Marc Maron
Collection: War
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: War
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: War
Image of Marya Mannes
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
- Marya Mannes
Collection: War
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: War
Image of Richard Louv
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
- Richard Louv
Collection: War
Image of Dave Barry
Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed in the entire Peloponnesian War. This is because turkey can contain salmonella, which are tiny bacteria that, if they get in your bloodstream, develop into full-grown salmon, which could come leaping out of your mouth during an important business presentation.
- Dave Barry
Collection: War
Image of Cormac McCarthy
War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: War
Image of H. L. Mencken
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: War
Image of H. L. Mencken
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: War
Image of Herman Melville
Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
- Herman Melville
Collection: War
Image of Rachel Maddow
What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: War
Image of John McCain
Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.
- John McCain
Collection: War
Image of Bryant H. McGill
I was advocating for world peace, but I was waging a violent war against my own body. I was speaking about poverty and starvation, but I was eating more than my fair share. I was a hypocrite.
- Bryant H. McGill
Collection: War
Image of James Madison
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
- James Madison
Collection: War
Image of James Madison
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?
- James Madison
Collection: War
Image of Larry McMurtry
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.
- Larry McMurtry
Collection: War
Image of Ethel Merman
Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most
- Ethel Merman
Collection: War
Image of Bill Maher
Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'
- Bill Maher
Collection: War
Image of E. V. Lucas
Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!
- E. V. Lucas
Collection: War
Image of George R. R. Martin
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: War
Image of Malcolm X
The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.
- Malcolm X
Collection: War
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: War
Image of John Gimlette
Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.
- John Gimlette
Collection: War
Image of Thomas B. Macaulay
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.
- Thomas B. Macaulay
Collection: War
Image of D. J. MacHale
If I fall out, pull this ring? What happens then? I sprout wings and fly?" -Spader in "The Never War
- D. J. MacHale
Collection: War
Image of Norman Mailer
One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: War
Image of Norman Mailer
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of Douglas MacArthur
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end.
- Douglas MacArthur
Collection: War
Image of George R. R. Martin
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: War
Image of Martin Luther
A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon.
- Martin Luther
Collection: War
Image of Amy Lowell
This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.
- Amy Lowell
Collection: War
Image of George C. Marshall
The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.
- George C. Marshall
Collection: War