Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
In time of war the laws are silent.
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.
I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.
American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.
Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.
I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.
We're in a world war.
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, 'What can I do? I'm basically a victim.'
We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
I think Obama is going to go down as one of our greatest presidents because what this guy has done and has tried to do, and over the kind of opposition that I don't know if Lincoln had, except he had to go to war. This speaks so brilliantly of Obama and the way he conducts himself. I think he is already one of our greatest presidents.
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
