Subject: Conflict » War (Page 3)

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Any ship can be a minesweeper… once.

Madonna said that we should pull all of our troops out of Iraq; Donald Rumsfeld said, "No, I think we'd better wait and hear what Britney Spears has to say about it first.”

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

All humor is based on hostility – that’s why World War II was funny.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter

The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Man should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

(1849 – 1926) American botanist & horticulturist

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.


(1885 – 1945) U.S. Army general

America never lost a war or won a peace conference.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

actor, writer & editor

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

(1890 – 1969) 34th U.S. president, U.S. Army General

People don’t start wars, governments do.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

(1885 – 1972) expatriate American poet & critic

God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.

(1618 – 1693) French memoirist

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

'Bush and Son: Leading America to War Since 1990.'

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Desert combat?… I can't even stand the walk back from the beach to the car.

comedian, television host & actor