There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.
I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.
Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
The U.S. military cannot fight Iraq's war for them.
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
The War will leave none of us as it found us.
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.
As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.
What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.
There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.
I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
All oppression creates a state of war.
I believe that any candidate who supports the war should not receive our support. It doesn't matter if they're Senator Clinton or whoever.
War taught me that not everything is glamorous.
We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.
But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.
The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
